PSYC 2021 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Floyd Henry Allport, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud
23 Aug 2017
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Midterm 1 may 17: 30% 75 minutes multiple choice (60 questions) Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 14 + lectures. Social psychology is the scientific study of the causes and consequences of people s thoughts, feeli(cid:374)gs, a(cid:374)d actio(cid:374)s regardi(cid:374)g the(cid:373)selves a(cid:374)d other people. Herbert spencer & mcdougall believed in an evolutionary approach to social psychology, as we evolve social psychology becomes more complex, groups evolve, we have an instinctual social psychology rather than learned. Sigmund freud psychoanalytic theory, that we all have sexual and aggression behaviour"s on how we survive( based on darwin) however, we are able to repress them in a socially acceptable way. John watson behaviourism, goes directly against evolutionary approach, it says that there is no instincts but rather everything is learned based on experiences. Modern day:( john dewey and flloyd allport most influential) proposed by. What fueled the study of social psychology is that people wanted to know what led to the holocost.
