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Social Psychology Social psychology is the study of how people and groups interact. Scholars in this interdisciplinary area are typically either psychologists or sociologists, though all social psychologists use both the individual and the group as their subject to study. Their approach to the field focuses on the individual and attempts to explain how other people influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals. Psychologically oriented researchers emphasize the immediate social situation and the interaction between the person and the situation. Their research tends to be empirical and quantitative, and it is often centered around laboratory experiments. Psychologists who study social psychology are interested in such topics as attitudes, social cognition, cognitive dissonance, social influence, and interpersonal behaviors such as altruism and aggression. Social psychology and sociology tend to differ in their goals, approaches, methods, and terminology. Social psychology tends to focus on the way individuals think, act, and feel when around other people, where sociology tends to focus on how groups think, act, and feel. Objectives: 1. To describe how social psychology is unique from other fields of psychology. 2. To identify important psychologists in social psychology, and describe their experiments and their findings. 3. To be able to use new vocabulary associated with social psychology. 4. To use important concepts of social psychology to explain why people think and behave in various situations. 5. To watch video clips of Milgram’s and Zimbardo’s experiments and write a thoughtful reaction and analysis of the experiments. Assignments: Read the textbook sections listed below and complete the 9 x 12 chart that was started in class. Your chart should be labeled as follows and each box should be equal in size. Concept Definition Psychologist Experiment Findings Real World Important Examples Concepts Conformity Obedience Group Behavior & Altruism Moral Development Perception & Attraction Attitudes & Prejudice Aggression & Authority Reading Assignments to Take Notes On: Chapter 21, Sections 2,3 (pg. 484-489) Conformity and Obedience Due: ________________ Chapter 21, Sections 1,5 Group behavior (pg. 480-484), Altruism (494-495), Moral Development (246-247) Due: ________________ Chapter 21, Section 4 (pg. 490-492) Authority and Aggression Due: ________________ Chapter 20, Sections 1,3 (pg. 460-462, 465-468) Attitudes and Prejudice Due: ________________ Chapter 20, Sections 4,5 (pg. 468-475) Attraction, Perception Due: ________________