PSYC 2P30 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Random Assignment
29 Sep 2016
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Construals how people perceive, understand, and interpret the world around them. Both look at social influence in behaviour. Sociology look at society at large , and put less emphasis on the individual. Social psychology emphasized individual behaviour and focus on individual differences. Explained human behaviour as part of a person character traits. Social psychologist explain behaviour in term of the power of the social situation. Fundamental attribution error tendency for people to explain others behaviour as a result of internal reasons, and not external reasons. Theory a set of ideas that are intended to explain a phenomenon. Hypotheses a statement that predicts the outcome/relationship of two variables. Operational definition developing a definition for a scientific concept. Why do we care about studying social psychology? important to understand human behaviour and to combat social problems. Hindsight bias the tendency for people to know it all well after the event occurred. Researches measure two or more variables and assessed their relationship.
