PSYC 2310 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Collectivism, Clinical Psychology, Hindsight Bias
19 Sep 2013
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Social psychology is about understanding our social connections to each other how they influence and are influences by what we think, feel and do. Scientific study of how peoples thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influences by factors in the social world. Scientific method: a technique for investigating phenomena, acquiring new knowledge, and/or correcting pervious knowledge. Social psychologists form hypothesis: a testable prediction about the conditions under which an event will occur. How we think about ourselves self perception. Self-presentation: how people work to convey certain images of themselves to others. How we think, feel and act in the social world. Social perception: how people form impressions of and make inferences about other people and events in the social world. Social cognition: how we think about the social world, and in particular how we select, interpret, and use information to make judgements about the social world.
