Social Psychology

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A discipline that uses scientific methods in "an attempt to understand andexplain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presense of others.

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Social Psychology

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Instead of being based on careful scientific analysis, they develop from everyday experiences and uncritical acceptance of other people's views and opinions.

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Naive Psychology

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Central focus tends to be on individuals and how they respond to stimilu

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Psychological Social Psychology

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Focus tends to be on larger groups or societal variables, such as people's economic status, their social roles, and cultural norms.

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Sociological Social Psychology

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Conducted the first empirical social psychological study

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Norman Triplett

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The two events that had the greatest impact on social psychology at this critical junction in its history.

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The great depression and WWII

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In 1936, social scientists formed an organization dedicated to the scientific study of important social issues and the support for progressive social action. What was this organization called?

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Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

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The Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany that founded the SPSSI, and believed that social psychology did not have to make a choice between either a pure science or an applied science.

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Kurt Lewin

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Due to conditions existing within a particular culture

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Culture Specific

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A symbol-using social being who can reflect on his or her own behavior

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Self

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Combines personality psychology (which stresses differences among people) with traditional social psychology(Which stresses differences among situations)

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Interactionism

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Theories that have provided numerous insights into how we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about our social world.

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Social Cognition

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The total lifestyle of a people, including all the ideas, symbols, preferences, and material objects that they share.

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Culture

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A set of beliefs and values held by the members of a social group, which explains its culture both to itself and to other groups.

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ideology

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A preference for a loosely knit social frmaework in society in which individuals are supposed to take care of themselves and their immidiate families only.

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Individualism

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Represents a preference for a tightly knit social framework in which individuals can expect their relatives for a tightly knit social group to look after them in exchange for unquestioning loyalty.

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Collectivism