PSYCO105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Takers, Physical Attractiveness, Milgram Experiment
10 Aug 2018
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Social psychology - study of feelings, thoughts and behaviours of individuals in social situations. When situations make a person act in certain way. People often think about, perceive or construe (interpret) the same stimuli in different ways. People often take mental shortcuts on how they perceive the world. Each individual attitudes and dispositions also affect social outcomes. Theme 5: processes are both conscious and unconscious. You can be aware or unaware of your social processes. Attribution - assigning a cause to an instance of our own or other people"s behaviours (e. g. a person making sense of a break up by looking at themselves and the significant other in deeper context) Key points: we should consider situations when we judge other people. Influences: how we understand other things in our life, how we prejudge others and how we treat others. External forces influences internal forces (e. g. wind and a ball or poor household and an.
