PSYC 3341 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edward Alsworth Ross, Kurt Lewin, Albert Bandura
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Theoretical viewpoint that searches for the causes of social behavior in influences from larger social groups: edward alsworth ross: dutch tulip. Theoretical viewpoint that searches for the causes of social behavior in the physical and psychological predispositions that helped our ancestors survive and reproduce: william mcdougal, who followed. Theoretical viewpoint that focuses on past learning experiences as determinants of a person"s social behaviors: albert bandura: television violent behavior can teach children that it is heroic and rewarding. Theoretical viewpoint that focuses on the mental processes involved in paying attention to, interpreting, and remembering social experiences: what we pay attention to, how we interpret and judge social situations, what we retrieve from memory, encoding-storage-retrieval. Kurt lewin 1930"s lead to a rebirth of that perspective known as social. *may include human universal perspective: many human behaviors and social customs are culturally universal. Social norms: a rule of expectation for appropriate social behavior (smaller)
