PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Social Comparison Theory, Tabula Rasa, Floyd Henry Allport

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: John Walsh

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What is social psychology: the scientific study of the way in which a person"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influences by the real or imagines presence of other people (allport, 1985: use scientific method to study human behavior, unit of analysis in social psychology is the individual, not religion, social class, race, family unit this is what makes it different from sociology. Practice quiz social psychology differs from philosophy because social psychology because it is empirical. A disastrous event increased research in social psychology because people wanted to know how it was possible for the nazi"s to do it. How can people commit genocides : some major contributions to social psychology 1930 1960 very. Important to know: gordon allport prejudice, establishment of society for the psychological. 3 social self: no man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;