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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY SUMMARY WEEK !: Social Perceptions and Misperceptions Social Psychology is the scientific study of how we think about one another also called social cognition. The interplay between our sense of self and our social worlds - how do our social surroundings shape our self-identities? How we form our beliefs? Also look at the links between our thinking and actions, between our attitudes and behavior. It is the social thinking – how do we perceive ourselves and others, what do we believe? The judgments we make about ourselves and others. What are our attitudes? What role does social influences play and what are the social relations with the other people. WHAT are Social Psychology’s Big Ideas – to identify and describe the central concept behind social psychology? We construct our social reality WHAT is your behavior / how do you behave in different situations and why do you behave in that way? Social psychologist wants to explain why people are behaving certain types of ways. Is the behavior orderly, predictable and controllable? Our social intuitions are often powerful but sometimes perilous Our instant intuitions shape our fears, impressions and relations. We trust our memories and misread sometimes our own minds - we deny being affected by things that do influence us. We mis-predict our own feelings, sometimes we do not know how we would react to sad news. Our intuitions can also be dangerous sometimes. Social influences shape our behavior We speak and think in words we learned from others. We long to connect, to belong and to well thought. Relationships are a big part of human being. Our attitudes Inner attitudes affect behavior, example smoker’s attitude influence to peer pressure to smoke. Personalities disposition also affect behavior. Social behavior is biologically rooted We are sensitive and responsive to our social context. Example if the man abuses the wife, it is normally right for the boy to abuse his wife one day as well. Are Principles applicable in everyday life? Social Psychology has the potential to illuminate your life, to make visible the influences that guide your thinking and acting. How to know ourselves better? It is about life – your life: your beliefs, your attitudes, your relationships and the influences on your life. Human values influences social psychology Obvious ways values enter psychology Values differ not only across time but also across culture. Values also influences the types of people who are attracted to various disciplines also Not-so-obvious ways values enter psychology - The subjective aspects of science Science is not purely objective. Your mind blocks from awareness something that is there if only you were predisposed to perceive it. - Psychological concepts contain hidden values Defining the good life – values influences our idea of how best to live. Professional advice – mostly reflects on the advice givers personal values. Forming concepts – while doing research concepts are being formed about that specific person. Labeling – we label people to groups, certain behaviors, certain attitudes. I knew it all along: Is social psychology simply common sense? Social psychology are criticized because the document the obvious. Experiments reveal that outcomes are more obvious after the facts are known. The hindsight bias (I knew it along) – makes people over confidant about their judgments and predictions. Social Psychology Research Methods: Psychologist organizes their ideas and findings into theories. Research is either correlation or experimental. They prefer to conduct experiments that explore cause and effect. Experiments enable social psychologist to test ideas from life experience and then to apply the principles and finding to the real world. Social Psychologist test the way human beings are thinking and why are they thinking that way: What is the perception of how each individual sees certain picture or even a certain studies? In Week 1 there are Concepts that has been identified that falls under social perceptions and misperceptions and how this is affected with attitudes and behavior. There is no right or wrong way in Psychology but rather the explanation of how every individual analyses a certain study. Human beings need to be self-fulfilling prophecies: Believes can literary create reality. Behavioral Confirmation – when a person’s social expectations lead then to act in a way that causes others to confirm these expectations – it is a social type of self-fulfilling prophecy. So my conclusion to this study material and lectures that you first need to understand yourself and your thinking before you can do this to other human beings. That is why Week 2 starts with concepts about YOU in the social world.