PSYC 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Subsequence, Ego Depletion, Confirmation Bias
13 May 2013
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Social psychology: scientific study of feelings, thoughts and behaviours of individuals in a social. The guards internalized their roles and resorted to horrible treatment, abuse, and humiliation to get results, the experiment had to be terminated b/c there were such high stress levels among the. Zimbardo thinks that the balance of power being unequal is the cause. Cognitive psychology looks at how people perceive things looks at different situations all together, not just social ones, but more on memory etc. Sociologists study the aggregate movement in human behaviour whereas social psychologists will study the individual. Where sociologists would study what gov"t policy affects marriage, social psychologists would study why people get married/ fall in love. Hannah arendt proposed that we are all capable of committing atrocities. Kurt lewin applied physics to psychology believing that behaviour of people, like behaviour of an object, is a function of the forces that surrounds them.
