Social Psychology 2751-BN-S1-2-PS

Issues covered in the classes

1. What is psychology and social psychology?

a. Myths and misconceptions about psychology and psychologists

b. What is psychology and what are its goals

c. Subdisciplines of academic and applied psychology

d. Sources of social psychology and its fundamental questions

e. Social influence as a constitutive category for social psychology

f. Social psychology and other disciplines and subdisciplines of social sciences

g. The most important research approaches within social psychology

2. The most important approaches and psychological concepts of man

a. Pre-scientific psychology

b. The emergence of psychology – W. Wundt

c. Psychological behaviorism

d. Psychoanalysis

e. Humanistic psychology

f. Cognitive psychology

3. Personality and situation as factors determining human behavior

a. Types of factors shaping human behavior

b. Attribution and the fundamental attribution error

c. The “prison” experiment Ph. Zimbardo and its conclusions

d. S. Milgram's experiment (the role of authority) and its conclusions

e. Interactions of personality and situation

4. Group processes

a. What is a group? Characteristic features and reality of a social group

b. Social facilitation and social loafing

c. Social identity and similarity of group members

d. Group norms

e. Group conformism and its types

f. Deindividuation of an individual in a group