Definition of Social Psychology
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Psychology is a social science study that covers diverse subject topics and carries out different forms of research in order to understand the development and function of human beings. A scientific study focuses on people's mind and its functions especially those affecting behavior in a particular context. Psychology is divided into different branches, and each branch addresses its own form of content in relation to mental processes and behavior. Social psychology is one of the psychology branches. This subdiscipline focuses on individuals and their thoughts. Experts in this field of study focus on why an individual acts as well as reacts the way he/she does. It studies the interaction between people, but the focus is on one human being rather than many individuals. Scientists as well as psychologists study it in order to understand how individuals influence and communicate with each other. This research paper seeks to address this branch of psychology in detail by explaining its meaning, the relationship between it and other fields of psychology and the differences as well as the similarities it has with these other fields. Further, the paper will also discuss the diverse research methods that are applicable with social psychology to determine how a person affects groups of people and how these groups affect an individual.
Definition of Social Psychology
Social psychology is an in-depth study of socialization. Gordon Allport (1985) defined it a discipline that utilizes scientific methods to understand as well as explain how thoughts, feelings and behaviors of human beings are influenced by the actual, implied or imagined presence of other people (Smith & Mackie, 2000). Cantril (1934) regards it as being the scientific learning o...
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that psychology is a social science study that covers diverse subject topics and carries out different forms of research to understand the development and function of human beings.
- Explains that social psychology is an in-depth study of socialization. gordon allport defines it as a discipline that utilizes scientific methods to understand and explain how thoughts, feelings and behaviors of human beings are influenced by the actual, implied or imagined presence of other people.
- Explains that social psychology focuses on ideas in social influences, thinking, and relations. it addresses the notion of people constructing their own social reality.
- Explains that psychology is a social science study that covers diverse subject topics and carries out different forms of research to understand the development and function of human beings.
- Explains that social psychology is an in-depth study of socialization. gordon allport defines it as a discipline that utilizes scientific methods to understand and explain how thoughts, feelings and behaviors of human beings are influenced by the actual, implied or imagined presence of other people.
- Explains that social psychology focuses on ideas in social influences, thinking, and relations. it addresses the notion of people constructing their own social reality.
- Explains that social psychology has been around since the late 1890s, with early influencers like aristotle, plato, hegel, lazarus, and steinthal.
- Explains gordon allport's concept on social groups and behavior led to the establishment of social psychology.
- Explains that psychology and social psychology are closely correlated. both address human behavior as well as mind and use scientific experimentation to control circumstances.
- Explains that social psychology differs with other fields of psychology, but the differences are on what they focus on in terms of information content.
- Explains that social psychology is an empirical science that tries to respond to questions about the habits or actions of humans by testing hypotheses. research can be conducted using experimental methods, correlational approaches, descriptive approaches and observational strategies.
- Explains that social psychology is vital because it is applied in people's everyday life. it is visible in television ads, films and programs as well as noticeable in how individuals interact, influence one another and perceive things.
- Explains that hergenhahn, b. r., and henley, t.
- Analyzes how lubek, apfelbaum, and allport's accounts of handbook histories of social psychology were historiographically successful.
- Opines that olson, m. h., and hergenhahn, b. r. (2013). an introduction to theories of learning.
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- Explains that before the early greek physicians, the supernatural model of mental illness prevailed. they believe in animism, mysticism, and anthropomorphism.
- Explains that witch hunts began throughout europe during the renaissance and the reformation.
- Argues that the courage to question ity of the church yielded deadly consequences.
- Explains how emil kraepelin was the first to put together a standardized classification of mental disorders. his list was accepted and used in diagnosis worldwide.
- Explains that lightner witmer's first psychological clinic in 1896 was a pioneer in the field of clinical psychology and created the psychological clinic journal to spread word of the new emerging science.
- Explains psychology experienced a shift from the positivist tradition to the focus on unconscious processes in the mind during the early 1900s.
- Explains schmied, l. a., steinberg, h. & sykes, e.
- Cites weyer, j., per joannem oporinum, de praestigiis daemonum, basel, switzerland.
- Explains that the american psychiatric association has revised its diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. the witch craze in 17th century europe.
- Introduces hergenhahn, b. r., kramer, h. & sprenger, j. (1971). the malleus maleficarum.
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In this essay, the author
- Compares the stanford prison experiment and burrhus frederic skinner's study regarding the importance of environment.
- Explains that philip g. zimbardo placed a simple advertisement in the local city paper requesting male college students for psychological study of prison life. he received applications from over seventy participants from across the united states and canada.
- Explains that they wanted to make the experimental setting bear a resemblance as closely as humanly possible to the psychology of imprisonment.
- Compares the stanford prison experiment and burrhus frederic skinner's study regarding the importance of environment.
- Explains that philip g. zimbardo placed a simple advertisement in the local city paper requesting male college students for psychological study of prison life. he received applications from over seventy participants from across the united states and canada.
- Explains that they wanted to make the experimental setting bear a resemblance as closely as humanly possible to the psychology of imprisonment.
- Analyzes how the experiment manifested how destructive and heinous prison conditions were to the health of everyone in the prison system.
- Explains zimbardo's conclusion that people are readily conformed to the social roles they are expected to play, especially if the roles are strongly stereotyped as those of the prison guard.
- Describes what is good, bad, and happiness, which leads to the questions of: "what's good?"
- Analyzes burrhus frederic "b.f." skinner's study regarding the importance of environment, stating that reinforcement contingencies determine which behaviors are strengthened and which are not.
- Analyzes philip zimbardo's stanford prison experiment and b.f. skinner’s theory of the importance of environment. the basic premise is the seeking validity or truth to reality that our environments make us who we truly are.
- Describes the works of hergenhahn and ratnesar.
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