PSY 274 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Subliminal Stimuli, Collectivism, Fundamental Attribution Error
9 Dec 2015
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They focus on behavioral influences by parents/ important people in subjects" lives and cognitive development of the subject. They focus on subject"s experiences and whether they caused: clinical abnormal development, sociologists. Social psychology is defined as an attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling and behavior of individuals is influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. : 2 heavily researched questions in social psych: How people go about forming impressions of others and figuring out what they are like. The extent to which people"s attitudes predict their behavior. Social psych looks at the way people (and groups) behave in social settings. Different schools of psych vs. social psych: personality. They believe that an individual"s personality thus behavior can be determined using the following dimensions: social psychology. They focus on the broader aspect of behavioral/ social psychology.
