Levels Of Social Psychology

Question 1

Intrapersonal

Answer 1

Psychology processes within the person.

How a person organises his perceptions, evaluations, behaviours, in his environment.

Question 2

Interpersonal

Answer 2

How the behaviour, affect, and cognition of someone is affected by others and the situation around them. Eg norm formation

Question 3

Intragroup

Positional

Answer 3

How social positioning influences behaviour (e.g. Roles and group membership, social status and interactions)

Question 4

Intergroup

Ideological

Answer 4

Influence of general beliefs, cultural norms and social representations of an individual.

For example Lerner’s Just World Hypothesis

Question 5

Paradigm

Answer 5

A world view, a way of simplifying the worlds complexity by making fundamental assumptions about the nature of the universe, individual, and of society. (Ratcliffe 1983)