PSYCH253 Midterm: PSYCH 253 - Midterm 1 Notes.docx

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Hilary B Bergsieker

Document Summary

05/07/2014: social psychology: study of the influence of our situation, how we view and affect one another, how people think about, influence & relate to one another, social thinking: how we perceive ourselves & others, what we believe, judgments we make, our attitudes, social influence: culture & biology, pressures to conform, persuasion, groups of people, social relations: helping, aggression, attraction & intimacy, prejudice. Institutions are powerful & perilous b/c thinking occurs offstage and results occasionally displayed onstage: your culture helps define your situations & standards regarding promptness, frankness & clothing vary with culture, examples, whether your prefer slim/voluptuous body depends on when and where in the world you live, whether you define social justice as equality (all receive same) or as equity (those who earn more receive more) depends on whether your ideology has been shaped more by socialism/capitalism, whether you tend to be more expressive/reserved, casual/formal, hinges partly on your culture.