LEC 1 - INTRO TO SOCIAL PSYC

Question 1

what is social psychology

Answer 1

Social psychology is a branch that focuses on the way of behaviour thoughts and feelings of one’s self through influence from real and/or imagined presence.

Question 2

what is social psychology about, whats the definition

Answer 2

construals, meaning the way other people precieve or comprehend the social world

Question 3

why do psychologist study social psyc

Answer 3

• curiosity
• solve problems such as social, health, enviroment, political and relationships
  -relation, and connection.

Question 4

example for relationships in social terms when problem solving

Answer 4

we can understand that one pov is different than another when communicating
EX - when someone says something and the other laughs, we may precive that as being laughed at when in reality, they’re laughing with us in thier perspective.

Question 5

why is social psychology experiemented than wisdom(philosphy)

Answer 5

because its scientific assumptions and ideas are more accurate when tested when solving a problem rather than reasoning,common sense, and/or opinions(bias), therefore we can understand and answer questions in a deeper level.

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Question 6

what is the definition construal

Answer 6

its the way others precieve the social world

Question 7

what do social psychologists believe

Answer 7

• peoples contruals are important to understand rather than social enviroment itself.
• its experiementally based science to which theories are evolved into the real world observations systematically.
• that behaviours are influenced by real and imagined presence of others

Question 8

what proof is there about construals

Answer 8

peoples beliefs about popularity of decisions making are constructed through their own way when decisions making, and people tend to believe that their decisions is the most common than what it actually is.

Question 9

what happens when dealing with stress when it comes to construals and how

Answer 9

people that cope with stress may have an easier journey with stress
when perceiving
EX - looking at setbacks as challenges such as threats

Question 10

if we wanted to know why someone behaved in a certian way and we asked them, why would this not be accurate

Answer 10

because people aren’t totally aware of their own responses, also people may be biased as in not telling the whole truth when asked.

this would be considered wisdom/folk rather than scientific and empricial because its an opinion rather than a idea or assumption.

Question 11

why is it wrong to rely on sources such as journalist when it comes to social psychology

Answer 11

because they over simplfiy things and they have a cult of people that respect them in some way or even do argue, either way the answer is clear

EX - influencer self help books, they’re only bought because it’s someones favourite influencer not because it actually may give good advice.

Question 12

what is considered a educated guess for social psychologists in order to find social problem answers

Answer 12

a hypohthesis

Question 13

what is the difference between social psychology and socioloigy

Answer 13

sociology is about studying a individual in a group situation (general prinicpals concerning how societies operate).
social psychologist look at the individual themselves(what is true for all)

Question 14

if we were to focus on the specific psychological process that triggers a state of frustration what view is this considered

Answer 14

a social psychologist view

Question 15

if we were to focus on psychological processes when different levels of frustration is triggered within different groups (class for ex) what is this view considered

Answer 15

a sociologist view

Question 16

what is the difference between social psychologists and personality psychologists

Answer 16

socialist look at the ways people can relate to each other through the social world as an influence, meaning they look at the internal and external factors.

personality psychologists look at how each individual is unique internally with one another.

Question 17

how do situational factors guide behaviour give an example

Answer 17

because social situations are subjective, we may preceive something than what is really is which creates a fundamental attribution error.

we may be driving and someone cuts us off, on the off day we may be more upset than usual, but we dont know wether that person is driving to the hospital for an emergency or to be an asshole.

Question 18

what is the definition to fundamental attribution error

Answer 18

the tendency to over or under estimate the extent of a situation because we believe it comes from personality traits when really its a situational factor.

Question 19

what is the difference between over and under estimate with examples

Answer 19

we may underestimate if we dont understand why a cult have a belief that sounds bizare but really, its just their religion

overestimating is when we fail to understand that cults belief is part of their religon and we judge them for it or make a big deal out of it, resulting in a complex situation.

Question 20

what is behaviourisim

Answer 20

understanding human behaviour in one need only consider the reinforcing properties of the environment.

Question 21

how can behaviour be understood in social terms

Answer 21

we look at the situation of the people in it, putting ourselves in others shoes, and see how they would react

Question 22

what is gesalt psychology

Answer 22

its the improtance of studying a subjective way of ones thought of an object rather than the object itself

Question 23

what is and example of the gesalt psychology

Answer 23

while people may study those who look at elements of a painting, gesalt psychology requires we look at the whole of the painting and how that makes people feel

Question 24

what are basic human motives

Answer 24

the desire for something

Question 25

why are human motives basic

Answer 25

because motives and needs are fundamental to which explain ones social world

Question 26

what do needs underly with human behaviour

Answer 26

the need to feel good about ourselves
the need to be accurate
the need to belong (afficilate)

Question 27

when are motives and needs fundamental

Answer 27

when it affects qualtities and direct cognitive processing

yeild bad outcomes

influence broad variety of behaviours

when it applies to everyone

Question 28

what is the social cognition approch

Answer 28

how people think about themselves in the social world in order to make descions

Question 29

what does it mean when people need to feel good about themselves

Answer 29

its the theory that people are motivated to maintain high feelings of self worth even when they may lie about it in order to feel good about themselves or for other people to see themselves as favouritable

Question 30

what is self esteem

Answer 30

the evalutation of self worth

Question 31

if someone had low levels of self esteem what would this mean

Answer 31

that they see themselves in a negative light but most people in the outside of him can either agree or disagree depending on how he maintains his self worth

Question 32

how can maintianing self esstem make someone do suprising things

Answer 32

because if we want people to precieve us say a person we want to date to be likeable we may do things we wouldn’t do on a regular basis such as say or even act on hobbies that we dont really like.

this is called hazing

Question 33

what is the proper term when we say people often cast themselves as favourable

Answer 33

justifying past behaviour

Question 34

why do people feel the need to be accurate

Answer 34

because people feel the need to see the world as it is and to understand and predict the social world

Question 35

how can contruals of a situation be influenced by misinformation or lack of time

Answer 35

if we put two cereals side by side of a quakers ceral and a lucky charms cereal, which one is healthier for you

most people would think quakers, however what the box shows and potrays in its advertisments does not mean it is healther than lucky charms let alone at all

Question 36

what does it mean when humans feel the need to belong

Answer 36

humans want to feel connected and related to one another

Question 37

what can feeling the need to belong result to

Answer 37

developing enduring close friendships and protecting them

Question 38

what are biological needs

Answer 38

the needs that have to be met in biological terms out of deprivation such as hunger, sleep, reproduce, and survive

Question 39

what does it mean when we have conflicting motives

Answer 39

its the saying of following the heart rather than the mind and vice versa to which influence the way we feel and may act upon ourselves or towards others.