01:830:321- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 48 pages long!)
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Scientific study of how individuals think, feel and behave in social context. Each part of this definition needs to be examined closely: Social psychology relies on the scientific method. Emphasis is on the social nature of individuals. Other people do not have to be real or present. Perceiving groups (stereotyping, prejudiced emotions, and discrimination) Section 3: social relations & applications of social psychology. Sociology tends to focus on group level. Social psychology tends to focus on individual level. Often share the same training and publish in the same journals. Both can help in understanding societal and immediate factors that influence behavior. Cognitive psychologists study learning, reasoning, mental processes, not necessarily social processes. Similarities examine how social contexts help or hinder anxiety. Step 3: begin shaping the idea into a hypothesis. An testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur. An organized set of principles used to explain observed phenomena. Usually evaluated in terms of three criteria:
