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    PSY004 EXPLORING SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

    - Lecture 1 Introducing Social Psychology – An Overview

    Defining Social Psychology


    Social Psychology is the scientific study of how individuals think, feel and behave
    about, interact with, and influence one another, individually and in groups in social
    contexts.
    The branch of psychology that studies social behavior – the think and behavior of
    individuals as they relate to other human beings.

    • Social Psychology focus on individual behaviour


    • Social Psychology is Scientific Nature
    • Social Psychology try to understand causes of social behaviour and thought

    Social Psychology explained behaviors across different levels of explanation


     Cognitive Process
     Environment
     Cultural Context
     Biological Factors

    Social Psychology’s Big Ideas


     We Construct Our Social Reality
     Our Social Intuitions Are Often Powerful but Sometimes Perilous
     Social Influences Shape Our Behavior
     Personal Attitudes and Dispositions Also Shape Behavior
     Social Behavior Is Biologically Rooted
     Social Psychology’s Principles Are Applicable in Everyday Life

    A Model for Understanding Social Behavior


     According to a formula first proposed by Kurt Lewin (1936), one of the
    important early figures in social psychology, social behavior is a function of
    the interaction of the situation and the individual's characteristics, or:

     Behavior = f (social situation × individual characteristics)
     The combination of individual needs and situational factors is called the
    psychological field in which the individual lives (Pratkanis & Aronson, 1992).

     The social situation comprises all influences on behavior that are external to
    the individual. A situational factor might be any aspect of the physical and/or
    social environment (the presence of other people, real or imagined) that
    influences behavior
     Individual characteristics include sex, age, race or ethnicity, personality
    characteristics, attitudes, self-concept, ways of thinking, and so on
    Social cognition refers to a general process we use to make sense out of social
    events, which may or may not include other people.

    Social perception is the social processes by which we come to comprehend the


    behavior, the words and actions, of other people.

     In any social situation in which we are directly involved, our own behavior
    influences the social environment and probably will cause changes in the
    behavior of others.

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