CHAPTER 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

social psychology

a discipline that uses scientific method in an attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others.

biological, cognitive, developmental, social,l mental

5 PILLARS OF PSYCHOLOGY

social thinking, social influence, social relationships

social psychology is the study of

social psychology formula

B=f(P+E)

Lerwin’s equation

we construct our social reality

our social intuition is powerful but sometime perilous

social influences shape our behavior

personal attitudes and dispositions also shape our behavior

social behaavior is biologically rooted

fundamental principles of soical psychology

folk psychology

group of men in germany under the influence by the phlosopher Hegel

group mind

study of collective mind — people in crowds behave antisocially and aggressively because they are under the influence of a group mind

Normal Triplett

studied the effect of competition on physical performance. Social Facilitation

Floyd Allport

presence of others influencing performance of others

Muzafer Sherif

how norms control the way we interpret what we see

Solomon Asch

conforming to group pressure

Fritz Heider

how the way we perceive others contributes to the. Nature of our relationships with them

Leonn Festinger

theory of cognitive dissonance, we get bothered when our attitudes are inconsistent

Stanley Milgram

“destructive obedience” - the willingness of ordinary people to inflict suffering upon the other ordinary people when ordered to do so

Philip Zimbardo

described the way people in groups can lose their sense of individuality and personal responsibility and regress to a more primitive and impulsive state and then behave aggressive

Tajfel and Turner

social identity theory

social loafing

performing is less when with a group

peace, political, culture, consumer, health, environmental, the psychology of social media, Al and human interactions

cultural trends in psychology

highdsight bias

i knew it all along phenomenon — makes people

overconfident about validity of their judgements and predictions

theory

an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events

Effectively summarizes many observations

makes clear predictions that we can use

a good theory can…

hypothesis

testable propositions that describe a relationship that may exist between events

to test a theory

give direction to research

predictive feature makes them practica

purpose of a hypothesis

laboratory research

field research

types of social psychology research

laboratory research

a controlled experiment

field research

done in natural, real life setting

correlational research

experimental research

social psychology method types

correlational research

the study of the naturally occurring relationships among variables

experimental research

seek clues to cause and effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors