PSYC 2310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Floyd Henry Allport, Muzafer Sherif, Gordon Allport
14 Mar 2018
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Information needs to be verified: scientific method is systematic observation, description, & measurement. Positive psychology: positive psychology a recent branch of psychology that studies individuals" strengths and virtues, established in 1998 to focus specifically on people"s virtues and strengths, roots of positive psychology are in humanistic psychology. Social perception: social psychology also examines how people form impressions & make inferences about other people and events in the social world. Self-perception: how our views of ourselves depend on our sociocultural environment, how we think about ourselves. Who are we: self-concept or self-knowledge (the known or the me, self-awareness (the knower or the i) Self-knowledge: self-knowledge comes from, self-comparison, feedback from others, when you were born were you born as a blank slate, not completely , perception of what other people think. Introspection has some limitations: people don"t engage introspection often, reasons for some of our behaviours are hidden from our conscious awareness.
