Multicultural and Social Issues in Psychology week 1
Multicultural and Social Issues in Psychology
Nicole Gerson
PSYCH/620
Jay Greiner
Social Psychology and Multicultural Psychology
Introduction Social psychology is the field of social insight and communication. Main researched strategies will be mentioned in the paper that are used in social psychology and some examples to provide more help. It will explain what multicultural psychology is and how they are related and what tends to separate them into two distinct fields.
Social psychology Social psychology is the scientific attempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and someone’s behaviors are influences by actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings they are around. Which means all the ways that someone can have an impact on one another. It happens to affect someone’s behavior such as yielding it to a majority of an opinion over one’s own judgment on a situation of any kind. It allows oneself to be imprisoned and do what others are doing around them because one may think they have to or do it because they think they can. Social psychology look at a wide range of social topics, including group behaviors, leadership, nonverbal behavior, and social perception (Fiske, Harris, & Cuddy, 2004).
Primary research strategies in social psychology With social psychology it heavily relies on the scientific method. Social psychologist choose appropriate research strategies such as experimental, descriptive and correlation research (Fiske, Harris, & Cuddy, 2004). The whole purpose of descriptive research is to help determine different features of the people.
Correlational research help reveals the implied type of contrast that one does to prowl after descriptive type of research. Correlational research identifies the variable that is compared to another one ( Friske, 2010). Correlational actually has three types. These types are the positive correlation that is two variables that both decrease and increase together. But if one
Nicole Gerson
PSYCH/620
Jay Greiner
Social Psychology and Multicultural Psychology
Introduction Social psychology is the field of social insight and communication. Main researched strategies will be mentioned in the paper that are used in social psychology and some examples to provide more help. It will explain what multicultural psychology is and how they are related and what tends to separate them into two distinct fields.
Social psychology Social psychology is the scientific attempt to explain how the thoughts, feelings, and someone’s behaviors are influences by actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings they are around. Which means all the ways that someone can have an impact on one another. It happens to affect someone’s behavior such as yielding it to a majority of an opinion over one’s own judgment on a situation of any kind. It allows oneself to be imprisoned and do what others are doing around them because one may think they have to or do it because they think they can. Social psychology look at a wide range of social topics, including group behaviors, leadership, nonverbal behavior, and social perception (Fiske, Harris, & Cuddy, 2004).
Primary research strategies in social psychology With social psychology it heavily relies on the scientific method. Social psychologist choose appropriate research strategies such as experimental, descriptive and correlation research (Fiske, Harris, & Cuddy, 2004). The whole purpose of descriptive research is to help determine different features of the people.
Correlational research help reveals the implied type of contrast that one does to prowl after descriptive type of research. Correlational research identifies the variable that is compared to another one ( Friske, 2010). Correlational actually has three types. These types are the positive correlation that is two variables that both decrease and increase together. But if one