1: What is Soc Psych? Flashcards
The scientific study of how individuals think,
feel and behave in a social context.
Social Psychology
Studies people’s private, even nonconscious
beliefs and attitudes; their most passionate
emotions; their heroic, cowardly, or merely
mundane public behavior
Social Psychology
Studies nonsocial factors that affect people’s
thoughts, emotions, motives, and actions
Social Psychology
Studies people’s thoughts or feelings about
nonsocial things
Social Psychology
Studies implied or imagined presence of others can have important effects on individuals
Social Psychology
It classifies people in terms of their nationality, race, socioeconomic class and other group factors.
Sociology
founder of social psychology as he published the first research article in social psychology
Norman Triplett
noted that individuals performed worse on simple tasks (Eg. pulling the rope) when they performed the task with other people
-Social loafing
Max Ringelmann
has the most dramatic impact on the field that psychologist question about what causes violence, prejudice, genocide, conformity, and obedience
Adolf Hitler
demonstration of how willing people are to conform to an obviously wrong majority
Solomon Asch
people try to learn about themselves by comparing themselves to others
Upward and Downward Comparison
Leon Festinger
research on individual’s vulnerability to the destructive commands of authority
Stanley Milgram
