[PS270] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (57 pages long!)
Document Summary
The scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. Focuses less on differences among individuals and more on how people view and affect one another. Environmental science reveals how the social environment influences behaviour. Social thinking: how we perceive ourselves and others, what we believe, judgments we make, attitudes. Social influence: culture and biology, pressures to conform, persuasion, groups of people. Social relations: helping, aggression, attraction and intimacy, prejudice. Social influences: social influences shape our behaviour your culture helps define your situation and standards (i. e. regarding promptness, frankness, clothing, etc. ) We adapt to our social context: personal attitudes and dispositions shape behaviour our inner attitudes affect our behaviour, different people may react differently to the same situation. Social relations: social behaviour is biologically rooted our inherited human nature predisposes us to behave in ways that helped our ancestors survive/reproduce. Applying social psychology: social psychology"s principles are applicable in everyday life.
