The Social Approach

Question 1

What is social psychology?

Answer 1

Social psychology examines human behaviour - the role of the individual’s relationships with other people and groups and how culture and society affect behaviour.

Question 2

Social psychology assumes that when individual’s interact with one another,

Answer 2

they affect each other’s behaviour

Question 3

The social approach assumes that people live within a culture and society and that their

Answer 3

behaviour is affected by their experiences within a society where they are members of certain groups.

Question 4

Our culture and society, help to shape our behaviour so

Answer 4

we do not act separately as individuals so much as within a social setting

Question 5

We are also affected by

Answer 5

the social situation and how others see us

Question 6

Obedience is

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obeying commands of an authority figure whether they figure is real or imagined

Question 7

An example of obedience is when

Answer 7

Nazi soldiers obeyed orders from authority figures to carry out the mass extermination of the Jews in WW2