PSYC 2310 Chapter 1: PSYC*2310 - Chapter 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

It is the study of how people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviours are influenced by the external social world. Also studies how people explain their behaviour and how people connect/influence others. It is important to capture all aspects of situations including artistic and scientific. Movie critics are criticized when they do not capture all methods in their movies. Religion is another example that lacks objectivity and scientific explanation. Floyd allport made first social psychology textbook. Commitment to collecting accurate and error-free information. Commitment to objectivity as well collecting data that is free of bias. These can be fulfilled by using scientific method, investigating phenomena, acquiring knowledge and evaluating previous knowledge. Social psychologists use hypothesis to make predictions about relationships between events. Research has found that kids from richer families had more depression/anxiety as well as higher rates of substance abuse; but this would be thought oppositely if it wasn"t for research. How we think about ourselves is called self-perception.