Chapter 1: Intro Flashcards

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What is social psychology?

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  • the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours of individuals in social situations
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What do social psychologists do?

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  • try to establish a scientific basis for understanding human behaviour
  • seek to discover what explains the phenomenon in question
  • test intuitions by devising studies and crafting experiments that reveal the causes of behaviour in social situations
  • study situations in which people influence one another as well as the ways people respond to attempts to influence them
  • interested in how people make sense of their world
  • apply their knowledge to important questions
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Who is Kurt Lewin?

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  • founder of modern social psychology
  • studied physics and applied idea of that discipline to understanding human social life
  • emphasized the importance of situational factors external to the individual
  • showed that social psychologists could make use of experiments
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What is the power of the situation?

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  • Kurt Lewin
  • the behaviour of people (like objects) is always a function of the field of forces surrounding them (psychological and physical)
  • field of forces is social situation
  • physical and psychological traits are also important determinants of behaviour
  • attributes always interact with situation to produce behaviour
  • main situational influences on behaviour are actions, words, emotions of others
  • people in environment can produce change in beliefs and behaviour
  • to understand why we act as we do, need to think about power of the situation
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What is the Milgram experiment?

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