cial psycholo | Social Psychology Definition PaperPSY/400, Matt DiggsBy: Debra Conkling5/16/2012 |
The proposal of the essay is about social psychology. The first part of the body of the paper is going to explain the definition of social psychology, how social psychology differs from other related disciplines, and finally the role of research in social psychology. The second part of the body of the paper is going to explain one of the major famous experiments in psychology’s history and relevance of it to social psychology, also a subfield of social psychology social psychology. I hope the audience will get good views, also a lot of information on a major part in the psychology field on social psychology.
Social psychology was first defined by a famous psychologist Plato during the late 1800’s. Social psychology is the type that covers a huge quantity of social psychology topics, such as leadership, social perception, and group behavior and so on. A definition of social psychology is a manor of personality, attitudes, and motivation that is used by a behavior used by an individual that can be influenced by a social perspective used within a group. An example of negative social psychology would be, different ethnic groups in the same classroom setting being racially biased towards one another, by brining on violence or agitation within the setting of the groups. An example of positive social psychology would be, an individual expresses his or her feelings, and the other group shares their thoughts in a positive manor so they don’t upset the individual any more than they are. This is positive social psychology communication. Social psychology can have major issues that can arrive when it comes to classroom setting's within different types of ethnic groups One major issue would be that different types of ethnic groups were being racially dissociating towards one another. And another different issue could be ethnic groups start a lot of...