SOC 1220 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Trust Law, Time, Sociology
12 Oct 2018
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SOC 1220
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
I. What is Social Psychology?
a. Lewin and the only formula you should know for this course
• B = f (P, E)
• B = Behaviors, function of P = Person, E = Environment
b. PSP’s vs. SSP’s
• Psychological Social Psych: Emphasis upon subject’s mental processes
dispositions, experiences, and immediate social situation.
• Sociological Social Psych: Emphasis upon subject’s location in social
order, their socialized roles, and historical social context.
c. Theory: What’s the point?
• As society gets richer, the religious aspect diminishes (everywhere, but
US)
II. Basic Social Psychological Theories
• Theories on why human beings do things
b. Determinist Theories: Focus in the environment, think that environment
determines behavior (everything)
• Reinforcement Theory/Behaviorism (Psych): Your behavior is
determined by rewards and punishments
1. Idea behind this: We like to avoid pain and like things that are
pleasurable
• Role Theory (Soc): The role you take on in society determines your
behavior
c. Constructivist Theories: How people construct their view on life (individual)
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• Cogitative Theory (Psych): How we think and feel about the world.
Focuses in on people’s beliefs, attitudes, and how you see the world and
different emotions on how you see things
• Symbolic Interaction (Soc): The interactions we have, and what is
happening in that interaction using symbolic things
1. Use symbols. Ex: Giving a dog a treat to train them, but they
understand it due to the treat
III. Methods
a. Surveys
• Questionnaires to find information
1. People don’t like to answer questions relating to how much money
they make
b. Systematic Observation
• Who are you watching, what are you observing, do they know you are
watching or not
c. Experiments
IV. Ethics (Why we can’t design as many cool studies anymore): what you can and can’t do
a. Stanley Milgram (KNOW): (1960s) who was a Jewish immigrant, wondered why
German people followed a corrupt government when Hitler was ruling
• He said people have a choice on what they have to do
• German’s are very obedient people, and 2/3 of the workers obeyed till
the end of the experiment
b. Humphreys and the Tearoom Trade
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Document Summary
Ex: giving a dog a treat to train them, but they understand it due to the treat. Methods: surveys, questionnaires to find information, people don"t like to answer questions relating to how much money they make, systematic observation, who are you watching, what are you observing, do they know you are watching or not, experiments. Ethics (why we can"t design as many cool studies anymore): what you can and can"t do: stanley milgram (know): (1960s) who was a jewish immigrant, wondered why. Inside jokes: other key ideas, denotive vs. connotative meaning, denotive: literal dictionary definition, connotative: certain words feel a certain way. Explicit bias: implicit automatic, didn"t really have to think before talking, preference for or against a person or groups of people that operate at the subconscious level (not aware we have. Psychological approaches: inner experience of emotion (biological, what"s this emotion feels like and why, james-lange theory when your body is presented with a stimulus you become aroused.
