PSY 240 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Social Influence, Norm (Social), Arousal

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Chapter 1: what is social psychology: define social psychology, the scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in a social context, each part of this definition needs to be examined closed. Situation: scientific study, social psychology applies the scientific method to the study of the human condition, the scientific method involves: Sociology tends to focus on the group: how the group impacts other things. Test various therapies for people with antisocial personalities who exhibit great degrees of prejudice. Examines the effects of genes on behavior: evolutionary psychology, uses the principle of evolution to understand human behavior, social neuroscience. Study of the relationship between neural and social processes: cultural perspectives, cross-cultural research, used to evaluate the universal generality or cultural specificity of theories and findings, multicultural research. 3: men pulling on rope alone vs. men pulling rope with a group, as group size increased, individual effort decreased.

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