PSY220H1 Chapter Notes -Naturalistic Fallacy, Language Acquisition, Human Behaviour
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Social psychology : scientific study of the feelings, thoughts and behaviours of individuals in social situations. Explaining behaviour: abu ghraib prison near baghdad. Also reported prisoners had been required to simulate sexual acts. Iraqi, arabs, as well as most americans were appalled at abuse: philip zimbardo prison. We put good apples in a bad barrel. The barrel corrupts anything that it touches. : social psychologists study situations in which ppl exert influence over one another, as well as the ways ppl respond to influence attempts of various kinds. Interested in how ppl make sense of world; how they decide what + whom to believe, how to make inferences about motives, personalities, abilities of other ppl, how they reach conclusions about causes of events. Social psych research on judgment and decision making, social influence and how ppl function in gps is relevant to schools of business, public health, law, med.
