Social Psychology

Social psychology is essentially the study of how human beings interact, behave and think around others. It is rooted in explaining the various different experiences we face each day in our social lives. Nowadays, film-makers try to depict these psychological phenomena in their movies to make them realistic. One such movie stars Emma Stone, an Oscar winner playing the role of Olive in the film “Easy A”. The film in short describes the high school life of a chaste girl, Olive, who conforms to peer pressure and starts lying about her sexual behavior in order to maintain a certain reputation as well as to help out her troubled friends. This eventually leads her to challenge her self concepts to extreme levels, causing her to either liberate herself from the façade she created or sink into the role. Easy A describes many genuine psychological phenomena and I am going to focus on three of them; Cognitive dissonance theory, how societal and cultural norms dictate our attitudes and thoughts, and different ways of persuasion.

Differentiate between Freud and Erikson's approach to psychoanalytic theory in this lesson. You will examine and compare developmental stages side by side and have the opportunity to test your knowledge with a quiz at the end.

The purpose of this handbook is to integrate concepts from the learning and cognitive psychology course to use as a professional guide for young children. The concepts within the handbook will provide valuable developmental skills that young children will encounter throughout their life. The learning and cognition course provided numerous theoretical perspectives and strategies to give a better understanding of the development of young children. It is important to know how children develop, think, and learn. Based on the chosen construct, this professional guide will lead young children in the right direction of success, with the help of professional guidance.

Sociology and psychology is the study of the mind and the environment around us which makes us who we are. These theories assist us to understand behaviour from individual and societal levels.

The movie I chose to watch to view examples of social psychology concepts was the movie Crash. The award winning movie Crash was produced in 2004 and directed by Paul Haggis. The setting takes place in Los Angeles with people of different backgrounds. Throughout the movie, I saw many social psychology concepts. Some of the concepts include prejudice, racism, discrimination, self-fulfilling prophecy, altruism, stereotype, in-group and out-group, ethnocentrism, and first impressions.

Applied social psychology is one way that psychologist can study our thought, feeling and belief, and how we function around each other, in our everyday lives, here are the five issues that I will be addressing in my literature review they are social influence, Attribution Theory, Group polarization, Cognitive dissonance theory, and Observational Learning. Social applied psychology has been shown to dominant theories and practices of management and organization systematically favor some (elite) groups and/ or interests at the expense of those who are disadvantaged by them; and that this systemic inequality or interest- partiality is ultimately damaging to the emancipatory prospects of all groups. ( Alvesson, Bridgman, & Willmott, 2011, p.7). Most psychologist have research and applied this type of program to different studies to help people with their relationship, education, and interactions with the environment etc, as I research this field I can see me applying this to my everyday practice to help my clients with their well being.

When we first meet a stranger, skin pigment, and wardrobe are two significant traits, which we used to formulate a first impression. How wardrobe style and ethnicity is used in establishing impressions and creating attributions and societal class has excessive implication for understanding and stimulating prejudice and discrimination. “ The field of social psychology has a vast literature related to person perception, attribution, categorization, and impression formation” (Davis & Lennon, 1988;Gilovich, Keltner, & Nisbett, 2011). In this experiment based on a person perception we’ll examining the combination of wardrobe fashion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

Most people will ask what is social psychology, what shapes our attitudes, what do they do, and what is the income of a social psychologist? Social psychology is important because people have gone through depression and anxiety. A social psychology can help one recover from the inside pain.

Social Psychology draws from many different disciplines. These include anthropology, biology, neurology, philosophy, sociology, and psychology. The two main disciplines that have influenced social psychology are sociology and psychology. According to the textbook, “sociology is the scientific study of human society,” (6). This encompasses all aspects of society such as its institutions (religion, government, school, families, etc.). Also, how society is stratified, or arranged, according to such things like class, race, gender, and so on. Basic Social processes, like socialization, deviance, and control, are also studied by sociologists. One final thing that sociology looks at is structure of groups, bureaucracies, and other organizations (7). Whereas the other part of social psychology is comprised of psychology. Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of the individual and individual behavior. Topics that are addressed by psychology are learning, perception, intelligence, emotions, motivation, memory, and personality (7). Combining these two disciplines creates social psychology, it draws heavily from and collaborates both disciplines into one. The book illustrates that early on both disciplines worked very closely together in regards to research and other departments and many times offered courses that were titled social psychology or social relations, rather than sociology or psychology (7). Fast forward to current times, and we can see the two

4A- An experiment is a research method where the researcher manipulates one variable to see the results in other or to see if there is change between the two variables.

We know human beings are social creatures, they are able to create families, religions, cultures and so on. These socializations help humans stay alive by creating support systems, fending off threats, and tending to each other’s wounds. Because of this, ancestral humans were able to survive. They evolved with neural and hormonal mechanisms supporting their helpful social behavior. Learning and assessing this social behavior is a huge chunk of what inspires the study of social psychology. When we try and look at a more biological sense of this, we find ourselves with social neuroscience. Social neuroscience is a fairly new interdisciplinary field, it is devoted to understanding and explaining how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of people are influenced by the presence of others. This growing field uses cognitive neuroscientific methods to address the questions normally asked by social psychologists.

Social psychology is the study of how people think, feel, and act as a result of being present among others. At times, a direct contact is not required to fully influence a person. The imagined or implied presence of others is sufficient to carry out a full effect on another person. Examples to portray how the impact of others can have an authority over the way we function socially can be found almost anywhere around us. The media is filled with many examples from recent headlines that may offer an illustration of this phenomenon. In recent news, the National Public Radio (NPR), a non-profit membership media organization, aired an interview discussing Syria 's bloody civil war. With more than four million people who have fled the country thus far, it has easily been named one of the worst refugee situations in history. Millions more have also been displaced within Syria. Although we rarely hear from the people inside, NPR was able to air an interview it conducted with one of the citizens who lives in the broken country. Saeed al-Batal, a photographer and filmmaker who did not use his real name for security reasons, reveals how horrific the experiences currently are in Syria. In this paper, the transcript of the interview will be used portray how, even when situations are clearly appalling and catastrophic, the presence of others effects people’s contributions and willingness to help. It will also be used to psychologically understand why people help, why people do not, when

As we all know marriages and relationships can be very difficult to maintain, but has anyone ever wondered why? After two people stand before everyone important to them in the world and publicly declare that they love each other and intend to remain together for the rest of their lives, everything social psychology has learned about the stability of publicly declared opinions suggests that these will be the most stable opinions of all. Yet of course they aren’t. Despite the almost uniform happiness and optimism of newlyweds, most first marriages will end in divorce or permanent separation (Bramlett & Mosher, 2002), and the rate of dissolution for remarriages is even higher (Cherlin, 1992). In most cases, this represents a drastic and unwanted change in a highly valued belief, a change that is emotionally and financially costly to both members of the couple. Financial issues are one reason why people remain in unhappy and unhealthy relationships. Even in marriages that remain intact, newlyweds’ initially high levels of marital satisfaction tend to decline over time (VanLaningham, Johnson, & Amato, 2001). How can we account for this change? How is it that marital satisfaction declines so frequently, despite our best efforts to hold on to the positive feelings that motivate marriage in the first place? And what is it those couples that maintain their initial happiness are doing right?

According to Gordon Allport , “social psychology is an attempt to understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals is influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.” (Allport, 1954)

According to the dictionary of Merriam-Webster, Objective is defined as "expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations". And the Cambridge Dictionary has the similar definition: “based on real facts and not influenced by personal beliefs or feelings.” It is obvious that to be objective, personal opinions on the research question or hypothesis have to be eliminated in the research design, research process and report method.