PSYC 215 Chapter : Social Psychology Study GUide-- book.docx
30 Jun 2013
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Social psychology: scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviours in social situations. Give us partial answers or sometimes no answers. It is not that we put bad apples in a good barrel, we put good apples in a bad barrel and the barrel corrupts anything that it touches . How people make sense of their world and how they act in certain situations judgment, decision making, social influence, and how people function in groups relevant to previously stated comments social psychology is rarely upheld in governmental situations. Arendt (1963/eichmann in jerusalem: architect of hitlers plan, not sadistic and twisted, however normal. Arendt focused on the question are we all capable of performing acts of brutality and believed that indeed, we are. Other people more often than not influence our behaviour. The milgram experiment the effect of punishment on learning: unfamiliar situations caused them to do something that would usually fill them with horror.
