Social and Organizational Psychology
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Introduction:
Social psychology: the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior, feelings, and thoughts in social situations
Four of the most important values that all fields must adopt to be considered scientific in nature:
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Social perception
Social perception: the process through which we seek to know other people
Nonverbal communication: an unspoken language of facial expressions, eye contact, body movements, and touching
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The self
Often, others are better at predicting our behavior than us, because we know all our intentions and motives, they only see the outcome
How we present ourselves:
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Attitudes: evaluations that can color our experience of virtually any aspect of the world
Explicit: Consciously accessible and easy to report
Implicit: Not consciously accessible or controllable
Social learning: many of our views are acquired by
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Causes and Cures of Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Discrimination
Discriminatory treatment can be:
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Liking, loving, and other close relationships
Interpersonal attraction: refers to the evaluations we make of other people, our attitudes towards them
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Social influence
Social influence: efforts by one or more people to change the behavior, attitudes, or feelings of one or more others
Forms of influence:
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Prosocial behavior: Helping others
Empathy: the capacity to be able to experience others’ emotional states, feel sympathetic toward them, and take their perspective
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Aggression
Aggression is the intentional infliction of harm on others
Theories:
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Groups and Individuals – The consequences of belonging
Groups: collections of people who perceive themselves as forming a cohesive unit to some degree
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Dealing with Adversity and Achieving a Happy Life
Stress: a contributing factor to psychological and physical health problems
Recente lecture notes (2018-2019) JulitaBonita contributed on 07-03-2019 11:27
Thank you for sharing your notes with us, Ilona! :) Very useful! I would like to point out the link to more recent content. A now 1st year IBP student, shares her notes for this course. Check out her Social and Organisation psychology - lecture notes (2018-2019) . You can also follow Emy's profile for more lecture notes.
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