[PSYC 2310] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (96 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
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Social psychology is about understanding our social connections to each other how they influence and are influenced by what we think, feel, and do. Scientific method: a technique for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, and/or correcting previous knowledge. Social psychologists form a hypothesis (a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur) about the relationship between events and then collect and analyze data to determine the accuracy of the hypothesis. Social psychologists address: how we think about ourselves. How our self-perception (how we think about ourselves) depends on our sociocultural environment. Our self-representation (how people work to convey images of themselves to others)- convey information using our habits, interests, and resources (cloths we wear, car we drive: how we think, feel, and act in the social world. Our social perception: how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people and events in the so(cid:272)ial (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld (cid:894)e. g. (cid:449)h(cid:455) ou(cid:396) (cid:271)est f(cid:396)ie(cid:374)d(cid:859)s dati(cid:374)g (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)ship p(cid:396)o(cid:271)a(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:449)o(cid:374)(cid:859)t last(cid:895)
