Social Psychology
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- Created on: 08-10-14 15:22
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- Social Psychology
- Assumptions
- All behaviour occurs in a social context, even when nobody else is physically present
- Social behaviour
- inter-personal and inter-group aggression
- discrimination
- attraction
- helping
- Social influence
- conformity
- obedience
- leadership
- social facilitation
- crowd behaviour
- Social cognition
- social identity / categorisation
- attitudes
- attribution
- stereotyping
- emotion
- Social development
- gender
- self
- attachment and intellectual development over time as a result of changing roles
- social expectations
- social circumstances
- cultural influences
- strengths
- real life situations
- field experiments
- may avoid demand characteristics as participants are unaware of the experiment
- field experiments
- stimulated situations like H&R's study are high in experimental realism as participants believed in the situation
- helps us understand social behaviour
- Social behaviour
- inter-personal and inter-group aggression
- discrimination
- attraction
- helping
- H&R's study demonstrates how the breakdown of groups can lead to tyrannic conditions
- Milgram's study shows us situational factors that can lead to obedience
- Social behaviour
- real life situations
- weaknesses
- lab experiments are hard to generalise as participants may behave differently in the real world
- low in ecological validity
- ethics
- deception
- no informed consent
- physical or mental harm
- Milgram's exp
- volunteer samples could cause demand characteristics (keen to please)
- lab experiments are hard to generalise as participants may behave differently in the real world
- Assumptions
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