Defining The Difference Between Social Psychology And Personality Level

With the factor of Agreeableness, this tends to determine your compatibility to others. This is used in deducing a person’s willingness to work as a team member, ability to cooperate, interacting with others and ensure compromise for the sake of others and reach common goals. Though it is a admirable factor, when success or that common goal isn’t met, or accomplished, that level tends to decrease, in that altering the overall personality. The results of the inventory as it pertained to me, seem to describe my personality almost exactly except for one category, which was Extraversion. Though the questions tend to be quite repetitive, most seem to be irrelevant or unnecessary due to the fact that they did not assume any real relevance to determining …show more content…
Social Sciences is concerned mainly with society and its relationship amongst others within that society. The are similar in that they both use similar disciplines, in that they pertain to the scientific study of individuals and groups. The difference between the two is that Social Psychology deals with small groups such as families or work groups, whereas Social Science pertains to large groups such as societies, or large business groups, or even school …show more content…
In order to understand how others were induced into unjust regimes, he intended to see how far authority could convince or demand someone to go morally. His experiment, although predetermines; began by selecting males age 20 to 50, drawing straws to see who would assume the role of teacher or learner. The learner would then be strapped to a chair and then fitted with electrodes, and given a list of word pairs to memorize or learn. The teachers were then tested by naming words and asking the learner to recall its partners from the list of four choices. The teacher was then told, for every wrong answer given, an increasing level of show was to be administered, with the voltage ranging from 15 volts to 450 volts. The learners were purposely given wrong answers, causing the teacher to refuse to continue. The experimenter, an actor dressed in a white lab coat was given a set of orders or lines to say to the teachers if they refused, ensuring that they continued. Results concluded that 65% or ⅔ of the teachers continued to the max level, and all the participants continue to 300 volts. Milgram conducted several other experiments in which he alter the the situations to determine how it affected obedience. His results determined that ordinary people are most likely to follow orders, even to the intent of killing , if told or demanded by authority. This would vary based on