PSY220H1 : Social Psych copy.rtf
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Social psych lecture #1 - jan. 9 2012. What is social psychology: the scientific study of the reciprocal influences of the individual and his or her social environment. Reciprocal pattern (little flow chart) how things effect you. Social psychology: cross between basic and applied sciences. Social psychology : probabilities rather then set laws/ there is a statistical difference. What does social psychology say that my grandma couldn"t tell me. Sometimes your grandma is wrong, some intuitions are wrong if tested against empirical data. Baseball player meltdown was it because of audience?? (he choked under pressure/scrutiny) Was interested in the bicycle, and noticed that riders achieved higher times when they were alone. He found that being with others riding with other people then when made people wind more fishing line then when on their own. And there were cases where having an audience caused worse performance.
