[PSYC 315] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (45 pages long!)

• School: Texas A&M University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 315
• Professor: Elizabeth Seto

Document Summary

The task of a psychologist is to try and understand and predict human behavior. Social psychology- the scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Supported with logic: empirical questions- meaning that their answers can be derived from experimentation or measurement rather than opinion, first task of a social psychologist to answer questions is to form a hypothesis, an educated guess. Then they perform an experiment: part of the job of social psychologists is to do the research that specifics the conditions under which one or another is most likely to take place. How social psychology differs from its closest cousins: personality psychologists. Try to answer questions about people"s behavior in terms of their traits. Have the level of analysis is the individual. The level of analysis is the individual in the context of a social situation.