PS270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hazel Rose Markus, Kurt Lewin, Social Representation
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Social psychology a science that studies the influences of our situations, with special attention to how we view and affect one another. Is an environmental science; it reveals how the social environment influences behaviour. Investigates how values form, why they change, and how they influence attitudes and actions. Our social behaviour varies not just with the objective situation, but with how we construe it. Kurt lewin: behaviour is a function of the person and the situation". We humans have an irresistible urge to explain behaviour, to attribute it to some cause and to make it seem orderly, predictable, and controllable. When someone"s behaviour is consistent and distinctive, we attribute their behaviour to their personality. Our intuitions shape our fears, impressions, and relationships. Thinking, memory, and attitudes all operate on two levels one conscious and deliberate, the other unconscious and automatic. Dual processing" we know more than we know we know. Thinking occurs offstage with the results occasionally displayed onstage.
