PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gordon Allport, Psy, Behaviorism

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What is social psychology? our lives are social, they involve other people and we interact with other people. Social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influences by other people adapted from one given by gordon allport (1985) This definition has 4 key aspects influenced by other ppl thoughts, feelings and behaviours individuals" perspective. Individual"s perspective take the perspective of individuals in a social setting vs objective features ie viewing the situation from the individuals eyes. Another aspect, to understand many social events, it is more important to know individual actor"s subjective persections of the situation than to know the setting"s objective features. Scientific study social psychology is a science ie involves collecting date to test predictions. Social psychology have shown that other people influenced virtually every aspect of life including: how we interpret events, how we feel about ourselves, how we behave.