PSYC 2040 Midterm: Test 1 Notes

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2 Jul 2014
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how individuals think and feel about, interact with, and influence each other, individually and in groups: kurt lewin-father of social psychology. Social psychology focuses on the individual within a given social situation, focuses on thinking, influence, and relation. Sociology looks at large-group behavior and systems in society. Biology examines the role of genetics in heavier. Anthropology investigates the physical and cultural development of a species. History determines how economic, political, and technological trends influence behavior. Ostracizing is when someone ignores, shuns, or gives the silent treatment to another. Psych-the breath of life, separates living organisms from innate objects. Epistemology-the study of knowledge; integrated in psychological thought: plato-perception was the key; our perceptions are not always accurate, aristotle-humans are social creatures, we need to be around others to really exist. Middle ages and renaissance-rebirth of art and humanism started to emerge.