PSYC 2120 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Notes.docx

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No matter what our pursuit in life, social settings and social problems will be important. Field dedicated to understanding the causes and consequences of social interactions between individuals or groups. The science of social behavior: social psychology: the scientific study of how individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by other people. thoughts, feelings, and behaviors y the ultimate goal of the science is to understand why various kinds of actions towards other people occur or do not occur, such as conformity, aggression, helping and discrimination. Individuals perspective y social construal: how individuals personally interpret or perceive a social situation. y to understand behavior it is necessary to look at the world through the. How other people affect us actors eyes: other people affect how we interpret events. bystander intervention: one important reason individuals fail to intervene is that they rely on other people to interpret the event: other people affect how we feel about ourselves.