PSC 151 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Loafing, Fundamental Attribution Error, Subliminal Stimuli
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Social psychology & personality psychology share interest in the society influence behavior psychology of the individual. Social psychology & sociology share interest in way the situation & larger. Social psychology is overlap between the two. Emphasize psychological processes shared by most people around the world that make them susceptible to social influence: comparing to other disciplines. The scientific study of -> distinct from philosophy. Within normal range -> distinct from clinical psychology. Influenced by other people (& situations) -> distinct from personality psychology. Phenomena that are vital to the human social experience. The importance of how people interpret their environments. Construals: the way in which people perceive, comprehend, & interpret the social world: different people will interpret the same objective situation differently. Affects how they think, feel, and act. b. Individual differences: a study is not generalizable due to individual differences of each participant; a person"s personality, background, etc. contribute as differences.
