The Social Approach Flashcards
What is social psychology?
Social psychology examines human behaviour - the role of the individual’s relationships with other people and groups and how culture and society affect behaviour.
Social psychology assumes that when individual’s interact with one another,
they affect each other’s behaviour
The social approach assumes that people live within a culture and society and that their
behaviour is affected by their experiences within a society where they are members of certain groups.
Our culture and society, help to shape our behaviour so
we do not act separately as individuals so much as within a social setting
We are also affected by
the social situation and how others see us
Obedience is
obeying commands of an authority figure whether they figure is real or imagined
An example of obedience is when
Nazi soldiers obeyed orders from authority figures to carry out the mass extermination of the Jews in WW2