Intro of Psychology course‚ I learned many concepts that relate to the real world and what we do in our everyday life. The psychology concept that I learned was social psychology. Social psychology is the scientific study of how we think about‚ influence‚ and relate it to one another. We can relate to social psychology because we interact with others daily. We understand the behavior of our friends and families individually when in a social concept. The prime examples of social psychology are in-group
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Group Dynamics in Psychology Social- In my social group‚ it is clear that we are a collection of individuals guided by roles and norms. We‚ as friends‚ clearly influence each other‚ satisfy personal needs through association‚ and could be classified as a unit due to our common relation and degree of similiarity. I also notice a great degree of interdependence. That is‚ evnts affecting one Work- Contrastingly‚ in my work
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1) a. How did stereotypes form? Stereotypes developed from humans’ cognitive ability to be able to categorize things by their similar characteristics and features. (The Psychology of Prejudice‚ p. 26) b. Why did they form them? Stereotypes were formed to more easily be able to evaluate someone based on the generalizations of their appearance‚ since there are plenty of other demanding cognitive tasks the brain has to deal with‚ it usually places similar people/groups into categories in which we
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AP Psychology Study Guide Ch. 16 1. What is social psychology? 2. What is social cognition? 3. What is a self-fulfilling prophecy? How does it affect self-expectations? 4. What self-concept (self-schema)? How is it referred to self-esteem? 5. What are factors that people take into consideration when evaluating their self-esteem? 6. What is a reference group? 7. What is an attitude? What are its components? 8. What is cognitive dissonance? How did Leon Festinger demonstrate
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Social Performance and Social Influence Introduction Social performance is the study of how the presence of others affects behavior. At times‚ the mere presence of others can have a facilitating or motivating effect‚ improving performance. However‚ when others are present‚ people may also become hindered or less motivated. This class will explore how one ’s perception of others determines one ’s response. Hetherington‚ Anderson‚ Norton‚ and Newson (2003) explored how eating behavior is influenced
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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION Presently‚ we live in a world where persuasion is an essential skill for every individual. It is a terminology mostly used in our professional and domestic lives respectively. In other to fully understand the psychology of persuasion the concept of persuasion will be discussed extensively. Persuasion is a term used in influencing ones’ value‚ attitude or belief about a particular product or service in such a way that the individual agrees that he was not compelled to
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between mainstream and critical social psychology is that of the methods adopted. Discuss with reference to the cognitive social and at least one other social psychological perspective. Social psychology has existed for about 100 years‚ before which psychology was a branch of philosophy. Social psychology studies individuals in their social contexts. It is a diverse discipline made up of many theoretical perspectives and variety of different methods are used in social psychological research.
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Social Cognition The topics in this chapter are: basic cognitive abilities and social cognition; social knowledge structures and social beliefs; causal attributions; motivation and social process goals; personal control; social situation and social competence. Introduction this chapter will consider how the social context is involved in our cognitive processes and will take a closer look at how our basic cognitive abilities influence our social cognitive processing. Also will examine the four
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Leadership and the thought of death The process of choosing a certain kind of leader can get influenced by the thought of death‚ or death salience‚ a product of Terror Management Theory. The difference in choice when people are influenced by death salience is substantial. Where only 4% of the votes would go to a charismatic candidate in a normal situation and 45% to a relationship-oriented one‚ with the effect of death salience this changes to 33% and a decrease to 22%. A task-oriented candidate
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normative and informational social influence‚ understand Asch’s and Milgram’s experiments‚ explain how we can be susceptible to social influences 4. Group Influence (1:00) d. Understand social facilitation‚ social loafing‚ and deindividualization‚ understand group think and group polarization‚ identify how minorities can sway majorities 5. Prejudice (1:00) e. Identify the three major components of prejudice‚ contrast different types of prejudice‚ discuss social factors that create prejudice
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