PSY220H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Kurt Lewin, Fundamental Attribution Error, Milgram Experiment
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Uncivil protests against coloured americans changed the views of most white men and women almost overnight. Social psychology: the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations. Conditions in the american prisons in baghdad led to people believing that the guards and workers were simply bad apples. ". Social psychology can be used in a variety of disciplines as well as real life. Personality psych stresses individual differences in behaviour rather than the social situation. Cognitive science is the study of how people perceive, think about, and remember aspects of the world. Sociology is the study of behaviour of people in the aggregate. Arendt argues that any one person is capable of being caught up in the situation. Adolf eichmann, behind the plan to get rid of jews. When interviewed, he was not psychopathic, sadistic, or demented, but actually just another boring person. Kurt lewin founder of modern psych, was physicist then psychologist.
