The Social Approach Flashcards

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What is social psychology?

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Social psychology examines human behaviour - the role of the individual’s relationships with other people and groups and how culture and society affect behaviour.

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Social psychology assumes that when individual’s interact with one another,

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they affect each other’s behaviour

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The social approach assumes that people live within a culture and society and that their

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behaviour is affected by their experiences within a society where they are members of certain groups.

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Our culture and society, help to shape our behaviour so

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we do not act separately as individuals so much as within a social setting

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We are also affected by

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the social situation and how others see us

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Obedience is

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obeying commands of an authority figure whether they figure is real or imagined

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An example of obedience is when

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Nazi soldiers obeyed orders from authority figures to carry out the mass extermination of the Jews in WW2

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