Social Psychology 2751-BW-S1-1-PS

Class issues

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. Sub-disciplines of academic and applied psychology
d. Roots of social psychology and its main questions
e. Social influence as a main category for social psychology
f. Social psychology and other disciplines or sub-disciplines of social sciences
g. Main research approaches in social psychology
2. Main approaches in psychology and psychological concepts
a. Pre-scientific psychology
b. The rise 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 influencing human behavior
b. Attribution and basic attribution error
c. The "prison" experiment by Ph. Zimbardo and conclusions from it
d. Milgram's experiment (role of authority) and conclusions from it
e. Interactions of personality and situations
4. Group processes
a. What is a group? Characteristics of a social group
b. Social facilitation and social loafing
c. Social identity and similarities between group members
d. Group norma
e. Conformism and its types
f. De-individuation of the individual in the group