SOP-3004 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Basking In Reflected Glory, Time Management, Cultural Psychology
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Social psychology is the scientific study of how people think about, influence and relate to one another. This branch of study focuses more on the individual rather than experimentation: be able to (briefly) explain the history of social psychology. Social psychology only recently came out as a form a specific area of scientific study. After wwii, psychologists wanted to study why people were so easily and readily willing to comply with the authority figure of nazi. Cocktail party complex: power of the situation: people in different situations seize opportunities that are presented to them (ex. Bill gates: biological roots: actions we do now have a purpose the environment we evolved to thrive in is different than the one we live in now, in what ways do values influence social psychology? (from the book) Value influence the types of people who are attracted to various disciplines.
