Sociology 2233 Midterm: Social Psychology midterm notes

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2233
• Professor: Suzanne Ricard

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More micro level analysis: individuals rather than societies deriving universal properties of human behaviour social psychology compared with personality psychology how social situations affect people similarly rather than differently role played by social influence is important. The power of social influence people are prone to the fundamental attribution error the tendency to overestimate the role of traits and underestimate the role of the situation in determining peoples behaviour false sense of security is developed. Ross and samuels: students were either cooperative or competitive depending on the name of the game they were asked to play - the wall street game or the community game. Must define social situations objectively, focusing on the reinforcements for response does not deal with cognition, thinking and feeling; approach has proven inadequate. Gestalt: we should study the subjective way in which an object appears in peoples minds, rather than the objective, physical attributes of the object.