PSYCO241 Midterm: PSYCO 241 Midterm: Midterm1: Ch. 1, 3-5, 7
21 Apr 2015
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Characterizing social pyschology the how question explaining underlying processes the why question: evolution and culture social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts (overt), and behaviours (covert) of individuals in social situations (not experimental settings) Comparing social psychology to related disciplines, like cognitive/behaviour psychologies. Proximal and distal influences in social psychology. Personality psychology: stresses individual differences in behaviour; tend to create a catalog of people"s personalities and then fit them into different labels; social psychologists instead tend to focus on the effect of social situations on personality and actions. Proximal factors: factors that exist in the here-and-now or that immediately precede what the individual does; Classic issue in social psychology: is behaviour due to individual differences (personality) or situational. E. g. ross and nisbett (1991): the person and the situation: perspective of social psychology; argued that ordinary people focus on the people"s behaviour more than the actual situation (moving objects draw more attention) founder of modern social psychology.
