PSYB10H3 Final: Complete Chapter and Lectures notes for Final Exam
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Chapter 1 an invitation to social psychology. Social situations can be real or imagined + how the presence of others affect the way we think, feel and behave. Social psychology = focuses on how social situations can influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of an ind. Sociology = focuses on behaviour of communities and groups, not individuals. Explaining + predicting behaviour = goal of social psychology. Research by social psychologists regularly influences government policy + also affects decision by the courts. Personality psychology = focuses on how diffs between inds influence thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Also related to cognitive psychology = the study of how people perceive, think about, and remember aspects of the world. Situations can often determine behaviour despair individual differences. Nazi germany when nazi solders somehow unusual, or were most of them normal people who found themselves in unusual situations.
