Social Psychology Overview

The scientific investigation of how individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others.

Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals.

Hardware and software.

<p>Why do people believe in fake news and with what criteria?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interpersonal relationships, decision-making, behavior and performance at work, communication, health psychology, and economical psychology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It affects individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, not only in physical presence but also in imagination and implication.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The brain is associated with the hardware while the mind is associated with the software.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Embodied cognition refers to the dominance of the relationship between psychology and cognition in the mind.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In the context of the mind, attention corresponds to the CPU in a computer.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Directive (or selective) attention happens when we are focused on something we are conscious about, so we select the topic we want to focus on and exclude irrelevant information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Salience refers to something that has the property of catching our attention, often by standing out from the context or being vivid.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Long-term memory is semantically organized, where all information about an object is stored together and based on the meaning of the information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The temporal span of short-term memory is limited to 18-30 seconds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Automatic attention clicks automatically when something catches our attention, while directive attention involves conscious focus and exclusion of irrelevant information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The basic cognitive functions dominated by our mind are attention and memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Attention disorders, such as ADHD, have to do with the lack of the ability of inhibition, which is the cognitive effort to screen out irrelevant information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The primary focus is the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals influenced by the actual, imagined, and implied presence of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social psychology also studies how thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The metaphor used is 'hardware and software.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An example of a question is 'why people believe in fake news with what criteria.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first topic is the 'hardware and software of our mind,' specifically the notion of attention and memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The objects of investigation are the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals influenced by the presence of others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Embodied cognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Concentration of awareness on a determined phenomenon with the exclusion of other stimuli.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Something that has the property of catching our attention, vivid, and stands out of the context.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Directive attention is conscious focus on a stimulus, while automatic attention is the one that clicks automatically when something catches our attention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Limited temporal span (18-30 sec) and a really limited capacity.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Semantically organized, with all information about an object stored together and based on the meaning of the information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>ADHD is related to the lack of the ability of inhibition, which is essential for attention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of using the 5 senses, information processing, and reasoning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It helps to introduce the definition of salience, which is the property of catching our attention.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The advent of computers and new research showing that what happens in our minds does not happen on a computer.</p> Signup and view all the answers