SOCPSY 2YY3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Kurt Lewin, Social Influence, Cognitive Dissonance
2 Jan 2020
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Social psychology: systematic study of people"s thoughts, feelings and behaviors in a social context. Psychology: study of human (takes individual as primary concern) thought process and behavior. Sociology: systemic study of society and interactions between individuals. Plato people cannot achieve their goals as individuals (need to organize and form governments: favored aristocracy. Aristotle: people form groups of instinctively not because of utilitarian reasons, when people come together they can be trusted to use talents to make a good state, favored democracy. Early 20th c: social influence becomes important (how group influences individual, before ww2 and into 1960"s focus of social psychology was more unified, making great amount of process in discipline in this time frame. Kurt lewin - nothing so practical as a good theory. concerned with real world problems: conducted study in 1933 in america with 3 groups of 11-year-old boys under different types of leadership.
