Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Fundamental Attribution Error, Order Of The Solar Temple, Personality Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Taylor Kohut

Document Summary

We are often influenced merely by the presence of other people. Social psychology: the scientific study of the way in which people"s thoughts, (parents,teachers,friends) feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people. Construal: the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. Naive realism : the conviction all of us have that we perceive things as they really are. We assume that other reasonable people see things the same way that we do. Social psychology, science, and common sense empirical: answers can be found by experiments and measurements. Folk wisdom or common sense: cannot determine the truth. Can learn social behavior from journalists, social critics, novelists. -- but don"t rely on them; they disagree with one another. -- no way of determining which of them is correct. Make educated guesses (hypotheses), design, conduct experiments that would result in one or another outcome. Social psychology compared with sociology social situation.