SOC 3223 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Learned Helplessness, Erving Goffman, Old Age
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Social psychology the systematic study of the nature and causes of human social behavior: (how people think about, influence, and relate to another, study of the relationship between individuals and society. Sp and psych: both focus on individuals, psych focuses on private internal functions and on differences between individuals, greater attention to thought processes, personality character, and changes to lifestyle, sp focuses on common humanity. Roots of sp: sp is young science, roots linked to symbolic interactionism, emphasizes power of situation and person, importance of cognition, and applicability of social psychological principals. Criticism of the discipline: 2 contradictory criticisms: Sp is trivial be it documents the obvious. Sp is dangerous be it can manipulate people (millgram exper) Hindsight bias: tendency to overestimate our powers of prediction once we know outcome (i knew that!) Scientific method: systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypothesis.
