L1

• What is the primary focus of social psychology?


  Understanding, explaining, and predicting how individual thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by others
• What are the contrasting views on the nature of humankind according to Rousseau and Hobbes?


  • Rousseau: Humans are good by nature
  • Hobbes: Humans are solitary and brutish
• What are the main approaches to social psychology?

  1. Cognitive perspective: Focus on perception's effect on behavior
  2. Learning perspective: Focus on reinforcement and imitation
  3. Motivational perspective: Emphasis on basic human needs
  4. Biological perspective: Focus on evolutionary and genetic factors
  5. Cultural perspective: Influence of culture on social behavior
• What does the cognitive perspective in social psychology focus on?


  How perception affects behavior
• What does the learning perspective in social psychology emphasize?


  Reinforcement and imitation of observable behaviors
• What is the focus of the motivational perspective in social psychology?


  Basic human needs
• What does the biological perspective in social psychology examine?


  Evolutionary and genetic factors
• What is the focus of the cultural perspective in social psychology?


  How culture influences social behavior
• What are the levels of explanation in social psychology?

  1. Intra-personal: Within the individual
  2. Inter-personal: Between two individuals
  3. Inter-group: Group behaviors
  4. Societal: Cultural impacts on behavior
• What does the intra-personal level of explanation refer to in social psychology?


  Processes within the individual
• What does the inter-personal level of explanation focus on?


  Interactions between two individuals
• What does the inter-group level of explanation examine?


  Group behaviors
• What does the societal level of explanation address in social psychology?


  Cultural impacts on behavior