Chapter 1: Intro Flashcards
Social Psychology
the study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context
Triplett
-published in the1890s
- a bike coach finding the effort people put in when there’s competition
- first published piece of social psychology
Ringelmann
Milgram
-1960s study on Authority
- inspired by the crimes committed under nazi germany
- increasingly high shocks administered to a confederate
Culture
a system of enduring beliefs, values, assumptions and institutions shared by a large group and passed down by generation
interactionist perspective
behaviour is a function of the interaction between the person and their environment; internal and external factors interact
- most widely used perspective, we will be adopting it in this class
Psychoanalyst perspective
internal and fantasy based perspective
behaviourist perspective
external, rewards and punishment based
multicultural research
research on different groups within a certain culture
cross-cultural research
research on the differences between cultures
Social Cognition
Study of how people perceive, remember and interpret information about themselves and others
hot perspective
More focused on emotion and motivation than on cognition
Women in STEM experiment
women were told at the start of their degree that it was a difficult time for everyone, and it resulted in them having higher GPAs
Cold perspective
more focused on cognition than on emotion and motivation
behavioural genetics
the influence of genes on behaviour
- a recent subfield
evolutionary psychology
Looks to evolutionary theory to explain modern-day human activity
Behavioural economics
psychology’s effects on economic decisions
Social Neuroscience -
relation between neural and social processes
Comparing Universal Generality vs. Cultural specificity
Using cross cultural research to determine whether theories are relevant universally or only culturally
- in the past, findings were often considered to be universal without researching the impacts on different cultures
