PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gestalt Psychology, Scientific Method, Behaviorism
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how individuals" thoughts, feelings,and behaviors are influenced by other people. Influenced by others- how others influence us, this could happen even when there not present eg : you would be thinking how your mom would think of you if you did this. So long as your affected by people: thoughts, feeling and behavior- how people influence your thoughts, memory, why various actions towards others occur or not. Other people affect how we intervene- we fail to intervene coz we rely on other people to interpret the event. Other people affect how we behave people can affect our actions and act different from when there alone. Deindividuation is a term that refers to how you may act differently in a group. Social psychology is not common sense- you think you know more than you do so you think its common sense.
