PSYCH101: Introduction to Psychology

Upon successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

• explain why the concept of the self is an important interest area for social psychology;
  
• characterize the major areas of research in social psychology;
  
• identify cognitive biases in real-life situations, including:
  
• Fundamental attribution error,
• Actor-observer bias,
• Self-serving bias, and
• Just-world hypothesis;
• identify the causes and effects of the need for group affiliation;
  
• differentiate between the cognitive behavior of groups and individuals;
  
• describe the major theories of motivation and emotion; and
  
• identify the factors inherent in situational versus dispositional influences on behavior.