PSYC 2310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Floyd Henry Allport, Muzafer Sherif, Gordon Allport
26 Dec 2015
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Social psychology is the study of social thinking, social in uence and social relatedness. The scienti c study of the way in which a person"s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are in uenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Three values of the scienti c eld are accuracy, objectivity, skepticism. The scienti c method is systematic observation, description and measurement. The scienti c study of social psychology developed at the end of the 19th century (norman. Floyd allport wrote an important book on interaction of individuals in their social contexts. World war ii increased research in social psychology. Gordon allport: prejudice, establishment of the society for the psychological. Muzafer sherif: study of social issues, experimental research on social in uence. Self is who we are, the notion of self concept and self knowledge (i am introverted, i am scared of heights) the known .
