Social Psychology (PSYC2020)

This chapter includes the introduction to Social Psychology and its historic origins of the field, as well as some perspectives and core assumptions utilized to study human behavior in a social context.

The objectives of this chapter are explaining the role of variability and competition in the process of evolution by natural selection and the role of the environment as it relates to “survival of the fittest”.

The objectives of this chapter are explaining the two ways people think about the social world, and the basic motives behind thinking.

The objectives of this chapter include an explanation of how memories are formed, how schemas shape memories and our view of the world, and how memories are reconstructions.

The objectives of this chapter include the explaination of gender and culture interactions that shape the self-concept, how the ego regulates a person’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and, people’s everyday efforts to pursue goals and why they sometimes succeed and other times fall short. This chapter includes a diagram from the textbook.

The objectives of this chapter include defining cognitive dissonance and also explains how self-consistency affects the ability to cope with situations. There are blank spaces in these notes to write your own to get a better understanding of the terminology in your own words. There are also diagrams from the textbook in this chapter.

This chapter's objectives include explaining the difference between injunctive and descriptive norms, and summarizing the influence of cultural worldviews.

The objectives of this chapter include defining attitudes and behavior, and explaining the two routes of persuasion. This chapter also includes diagram models from the textbook.

The context of this chapter includes defining entitativity and identifying the features of cohesive groups.