SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Circular Reasoning, Role Theory, Scientific Method
7 Dec 2016
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T extbook: d el amater 8th edition. F ormal d efinition: t he s ys tematic s tudy of the nature and caus e of human s ocial behaviour. S ocial ps ycholog y is s eparated from the other s oc ial s ciences by the focus of the interactions of s ocial and individual factors . W e tend to explain many ques tions with internal as pect (genetic, attributed by the individual) however s ocial p s ych involves a s ocial as pect as well. He wanted to understand how people can be made or forced to do bad things. (e lectric s hock e xperiment). More than half the population participating in the experiment gave the s hock to the pers on ans wering the ques tion. H e c ould change the compliance rate by altering various factors . (p roximity, authority).
