Social Psychology

These notes cover definition of attraction, determinants of attraction, and then explanations and limitations of all the determinants of attraction, beauty bias, reciprocity, attachment theory, and romantic relationships. Really good as an outline for an essay or exam question.

These lecture notes cover definitions of groups, two approaches to understanding groups, productivity of groups vs individual, social facilitation, arousal and narrowing of attention, evaluation apprehension, self-expectations, social loafing, gender and cultural differences, group problem solving, deindividuation, ABC's of group perception, stereotype threat, diversity, discrimination. These notes are extensive and have lots of studies and examples. Really good as introduction to groups or for ...

Includes Freud, psycho, bio, social approaches to aggression, types of aggressive behaviour, culture, gender, situational factors, individual factors, models of aggression, excitation-transfer, socio-cognitive model, social learning theory, criticism of the Bobo doll study, TV and violence, media violence, pro-social behaviour, egoism vs altruism, Kitty, bystander effect, biological approach to helping, genes, social learning approach, moral reasoning, cultural norms. These notes are very extens...

This document covers a Social Psychology lecture on Attitude Change. It includes attitudes, attitude change, message-based persuasion, persuasion, motivational theories, Yale approach, elaboration likelihood model, cognitive consistency, cognitive consistency theories, balance theory, cognitive dissonance theory, self-perception theory, resisting attitude change, attitude inoculation, awareness of product placement, reactance theory, predicting behaviour from attitudes, two key models of behavio...

These are lecture notes from Social Psychology lecture on Attitudes. They cover definition of attitude, ABC model, availability and accessibility of attitudes, attitude formation, measurement, attitudinal ambivalence, examples, and theories such as direct experience, mere exposure effect, self perception theory and social representation theory. Great as exam revision.