[PSYC 2245] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 84 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2245
• Professor: Kyler Rasmussen

Document Summary

The task of the social psychologist is to try to understand and predict human behaviour . Social psychology: the scientific study of the way in which peoples thoughts, feelings and behaviour is influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Gestalt psychology: a school of psychology stressing the importance of studying the subjective way in which an object appears in peoples minds rather than the objective physical attributes of the object. Na ve realism: we think we see things as they really are and that other reasonable people will agree with us, if people disagree with us, we see them as biased and ourselves as objective. Sociology: social psychology looks at the individual where sociology looks at the whole thing. Social psychology is: logic/insight, educated guesses (hypotheses, experiments. Social psychology rivals philosophy in its ability to teach people that they do not truly understand the nature of the world.