Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-13: Gay Bashing, Aversive Racism, Realistic Conflict Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: James M Olson

Document Summary

Social psychology"s connections to other areas of psychology. Psychological or mental problems affecting people"s well being. Individual differences that affect social behaviour (e. g. , self esteem) Social cognition how information about people is processed and stored. Loneliness, shyness and other relationship problems; depression and anxiety. How social and cultural forces influence human behaviour. Focus on groups rather than individuals; measure relevant concepts rather than manipulate in experiments. Focus on cultures rather than individuals; rely on existing materials rather than conducting experiments. Exclusive focus on the political domain; study existing systems rather than conducting experiments. Social psychology emerged middle of 20th century; most clearly during the 1950"s. Modern psychology has only existed for 50 to 60 years earliest sources of social psychology can be found in philosophy: important social psychological concepts such as: Plato = father of western philosophy distinguish between thoughts, feeling and behaviours: now cognitive (thoughts), affective (feelings) and behavioural.