Examine and Assess the Influence of Other People on Human Behaviour and Performance.

After checking some of the websites about psychobabble and its meaning, I have learned that there is a lot of words used today by ordinary people, and Psychologist. Some Psychologist or Doctors will diagnose children with ADHD, but they have not tested these children properly to prove their diagnosis. Sometimes these children may be just bored or they need something to do that stimulates their interest in the subject that they are studying or they just have built-up energy and they may need more exercise in their daily routine, than other children.

Therefore, the study indicated that individuals with a strict upbringing by pushy parents were most likely to develop an authoritarian personality. It was believed that this was because the individual was not able to express hostility towards their parents (for being strict and critical). Consequently, the person would then displace their hostility to other people, namely those who are in a minority. Adorno et al. concluded that people with authoritarian traits, as identified by the F-Scale, were predisposed to having 'fascistic' characteristics such as ethnocentrism (the tendency to favour one's own ethnic group), respect for authority figures and obsession with power (McAvoy 2010).

The rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930’s and the acts of aggression and atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War led to questions being asked as to why some people where prone to such levels of violence and hate in the name of political ideology. The ‘Authoritarian Personality’ was a concept suggested in 1950 by German sociologist Theodor Adorno and colleagues following their research identifying the personality traits believed to allow an individual to be bias towards and follow a fascist ideology. Although initially met with great excitement, over time the authoritarian personality alone

The principles and theories of Social Psychology are important and useful in assessing behaviors in situations. These social psychological principles and their applications can be seen in fictional films which can also be attributed to everyday life. One such film that holds certain social psychological perspectives is Will Gluck’s 2010 production of Easy A. A film about high school student Olive Penderghast and how a sudden change in popularity and financial status, after an unintentional rumor about how she supposedly lost her virginity to a college guy spread through the entire her school. The film draws on the behavioral connections of pronounced hussy Olive Penderghast and her English class’s assigned reading of The Scarlet Letter.

The article, “The Authoritarian Personality,” written by Erich Fromm discusses the common and different characteristics between the two forms of an authoritarian personality. He starts to explain how one becomes a mature person. He states that to become a mature person, said person needs to have developed love and reason. He then states that an authoritarian character has not reached maturity, and therefore, has not developed love or reason. Erich Fromm continues to explain that the difference between the ruler and the ruled is how they start to feel “greater.” The way the ruled feels “greater” is by depending on their ruler for guidance and by following the ruler to become a part of the larger group. The way the ruler feels “greater” is by depending on the ruled to continue to look at them as strong and powerful. He then points out that one person can hold both the ruler and the ruled characteristics. Erich Fromm continues to explain the differences between rational and irrational authority and where these two forms of authority are found. He ends by saying that the understanding of love and reason, and developing said characteristics is the foundation to a person’s own authority and political democracy. While reading this article, it brought me back to all the times I have dealt with people who have authoritative personalities and how it affected me. As stated by Erich Fromm, all people with authority personalities contain components of both the ruler and the ruled.

Children used to actually talk to their real life friends. For today’s teenagers and preteens, the give and take of friendship seems to be conducted increasingly in the abbreviated snatches of cell phones texts, or through social networking sites like Face book. The question on researcher’s minds is whether the quality of their interactions is being diminished without the intimacy and emotional give and take of regular, extended face-to face time. The ease of electronic communication may be making teens less interested in face-to-face conversations, which lead to bad consequences. People who study relationships believe that good friendships that we develop as a child show us how to have healthy and lasting adult relationships. (4)

Each and every living being on the planet – without exception – happens to be a social animal that, throughout the course of their life, gets influenced by the culture, incidents, society, every imaginable phenomenon that surrounds them. The Social Animal by American psychologist and author Elliot Aronson, who is most well-known for his theory on Cognitive dissonance, gain-loss theory of attraction and others, is a remarkable piece work with an in-depth analysis on the idea of social influence on specific individuals. Moreover, the book reveals how the mind of a person changes through time, as the result of being exposed to an immense amount of pressure from a situation, human being or a group of people. Consequently, the ideas of social influence,

Explain how variables such as social interactions, cognitive processes, environmental variables, cultural context, and biological factors shape what social psychology is all about and how it is practiced.

Agentic interpersonal behaviour debates the idea of exercising power over others in social contexts. The individuals who tend to present this trait tend to identify themselves as forceful, assertive and self-confident, (Wiggins 1995; Zeigler-Hill; Qinglin Zhang 2013).

I plan on obtaining my undergraduate degree in psychology, centered on the biopsychology aspect of psychology. My passion for psychology grew stronger from analyzing the behaviors of people. I have often wondered why some who are affected by mental disorders act dramatically different, while others act more subtly. There are students at my school with disorders. Some of them have the same disorder; some act aggressively when upset, while others demonstrate a calm demeanor. One day I observed a student who completed an assignment, but was unable to turn it in because of a computer issue. She immediately had a violent reaction. I became intrigued with her temperament and reactions to others. My observation was that she reacted calmly to those

Furthermore, Hall says that each culture has a particular way to understand the background, so American people usually tends to have fast relationships and do not feel an important implication with friends, but for example in the Middle East people take more time to establish a relation but it hopes that friends will not let you down. (Hall, 1960).

This essay shall discuss, explore and evaluate the explanations as to why people obey authority. After the Nazi's justified genocide by saying that they were simply following orders, a psychologist named Stanley Milgram (1963) decided to carry out a study to try to answer the question of how far individuals

A topic that caught the most of my attention was Groupthink, because of how simple a person with authority can affect the rest of the group’s thinking. After reading about the experiments that showed groupthink, it really opened my eyes on how society really affects our decision making.

An authoritarian personality is a personality type in which an individual inhibits prejudice. It is said to be caused by a variety of certain circumstances, which were determined by Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswik, Levinson, and Sanford during the year 1950. Through many tests and analysis of over 2,000 respondents from middle-class Whites to inmates of San Quentin State Prison, they were able to figure out the characteristics associated with authoritarian personality. The characteristics include compliance in beliefs of conventional values, not having criticism towards authority and complying to authority, and concern regarding power and toughness. Also, their intolerance is related to aggression towards people that do not oblige to authority or conventional norms. Researchers believe that a rigid upbringing leads those who have an authoritarian personality to treat others like how they were treated.

Facebook is the largest social network in the world and the majority of Facebook users are not from the United States. While much research on the use and impact of Facebook and social media has been conducted within the continental US, there is a need to explore issues pertaining to Facebook use in other countries and cultures. This study reports findings from research conducted in Guam, an unincorporated territory of the United States with two major ethnic groups - Chamorro and Filippino. Using survey data collected from college student surveys in these two major ethnic groups, this investigation aims to gain further insights into the impact of ethnicity and culture on Facebook use for socialization and academics. Culture is measured using Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions, socialization is measured using items taken from prior research related to social maintenance and social outreach, and academics is measured by items taken from prior research related to academic outreach and academic impact. A comparison of usage markers finds that, on average, Filippinos stay logged on longer per Facebook visit than Chamorros. Fillipinos also have significantly higher scores on on the Social Maintenance and Academic Outreach scales, and on Hofstede’s Individualism-Collectivism and Masculinity-Femininaty scales. A step-wise regression analysis