As the Social Psychology tries to understand the individual’s thoughts and behaviors in social settings‚ the subject matter of Social Psychology goes on changing as the years passes by. Due to the tremendous changes happening‚ the present day human beings are well advanced in every sphere. The speedy growth found in every areas of human life‚ social psychology is found to incorporate the latest developments into its subject matter. This has led to the changing and formulating of new perspectives
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Blind Obedience While sitting in church on Sunday going through the same motions of every Sunday‚ my son leans over to ask‚ "Why do we have to stand up for this prayer?" My response "because we are supposed to". Reading "The Children ’s Story" by James Clavell‚ made me think a little more about this question that I had no answer for. A person needs to be able to explain why he does what he does. Children are innocent and unknowing; they are like a blank piece of paper waiting to be filled
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Flooding Using the Theories of Conformity and Obedience As a partial fulfillment for the subject PSYCH 130: Social Psychology Submitted by: Joseph Nikolai Chioco Submitted to: May Angelica Saludez September 2012 Introduction Conformity‚ as defined by David Myers‚ is the change in our behavior or belief as a result of others’ influences. It may come in three forms; compliance‚ obedience‚ and acceptance. Compliance is the insincere conformity as a response to an implied or explicit
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The Power of Persuasion Thesis Statement: To inform my audience about the science and the power of persuasion. Introduction I. “If you would persuade‚ you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.” These are wise words spoken by Benjamin Franklin‚ whom we all know for his roles in American History as a writer‚ scientist and politician. II. In this quote‚ Benjamin Franklin speaks of how to persuade. But why would it be important to know how to persuade? III. I always have to ask
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What is social psychology? According to your textbook‚ what are some big ideas in social psychology? What effect do these ideas have on behaviors? Social psychology is the influences from our situations and how we view and are affected by one another (p.4). Even though it is fairly a young science‚ it makes sense because the studies that were resulted from the last century are warranted. We have evolved from how we think to what others think about us are more of a concern in society. When I think
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Obedience to Authority Milgram’s obedience to authority experiment countered the participant’s moral beliefs against the demands of authority. For this study‚ Milgram took out a newspaper ad that offered $4.50 for one hour of work‚ at Yale University‚ for a psychology experiment that sought to investigate memory and learning. Participants were told that the study would look
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What cannot be processed or accepted by the society is deemed to be redundant. This brings us to the layman definition of conformity‚ a type of social influence in-volving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group. Before we delve further into the issue of conformity which is making our society a dystopian one‚ we must first make ourselves aware of the main reasons as to why a man conforms. First and foremost‚ the fear of rejection
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Social psychology focuses on what makes us who we are. Studies how each individual person develops their own set of feelings‚ behaviors‚ and thoughts. Understanding how people use these unique characteristics in everyday life social situations. Social psychologists try study out explain the social behavior of the human mind. In today’s time we have many social inputs on our minds. There are social influences everywhere social networking such has: Facebook‚ Instagram‚ Twitter and other internet sites
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Ultimately‚ all persuasion should open opportunities for people to make a choice to assign meaning to a symbol. If persuasion is forced on people and narrows down or prevents them from having the ability to choose‚ the persuasion is occurring on wrong‚ unethical grounds. Clearly‚ persuasion can be used both properly and improperly in the church. If the church tries to open space for people to decide whether or not to accept Jesus as their savior by using God’s words in scripture as support‚ then
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and discuss two factors that Milgram found effect obedience? Refer to empirical evidence in your answer Milgram’s original study into obedience came under to a lot of scrutiny because of both mythological and ethical problems. This meant that the validity of Milgram’s study was put into question. Following the study were further investigations to see what might change and explain the results that Milgram found‚ both by Milgram himself and other psychologists. Variations to his study throw up interesting
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