There are three different situations of presence of other: observation from others, competition with others, and coordination with others (Strauss, 2001). Observation from others is the situation that the outsider acts as an audience who do nothing but watching the individual. Competition with other is the situation that other people do the same thing as the individual doing. Coordination with others is the situation that the individual performs the task together and share the common goal with other people as in a group or team. In recent year, social psychologists and researchers have found that the performance could be affected by the situations and explained by three theories: Social facilitation theory, social facilitation-inhibition theory and social loafing theory.
68 PsychSim 5: Everybody’s Doing It! PsychSim 5: EVERYBODY’S DOING IT! Name: Section: B29 Date: This activity explores the issue of social influence—how the behavior of other people affects your behavior. Social Influence • What is conformity? Conformity is a type of social influence involving a change in belief or behavior in order to fit in with a group.
In the article “Stemming the Tide of Trauma Systemically: The Role of Family Therapy” by Charles R. Figley, and Kathleen Regan Figley we learn about how trauma effects people. In this article Trauma is defined as an experience sudden and could be potentially deadly. Depending on how bad the trauma is it could leave lasting and troubling memories for a person. For some trauma events people can become very dangerous towards others like close family or friends. Some use the principles of family therapy to help treat the primary and the secondary traumatic reactions to help the person who is going through this traumatic event.
Many of those factors are either biological or environmental. Biological factors are the traits and characteristics people are born with. The environment an individual grows up in helps to shape his or her personality. Freud believes that the unconscious affects an individual’s personality. The unconscious is storage for an individual’s instincts and drives that he or she is not aware of (Feist & Feist, 2009, p. 24).
These big ideas can be categorized under social thinking, social influence, or social relations. The idea that we construct our social reality falls under social thinking, it describes the natural human urge to explain behavior, by attempting to attribute it to a cause, in order to make it seem orderly, predictable, and controllable (Myers, 2010). According to social psychology our social intuitions are powerful and sometimes perilous, suggesting that the human ability to understand something immediately, molds or influences behavior because it also shapes fears, attitudes, impressions, and relationships (Myers, 2010). It is also believed that social influences shape behavior as does behavior shape social influences. Myers (2010) provides an example as to how behavior is shaped by social influences making humans social creatures, “We speak and think in words we learned from others (Social psychology, p. 7).
Broderick & Blewitt (2015) define social comparison as comparing someone else’s abilities with their own, and this is a common practice during middle childhood and early adolescence. Middle childhood is when self-esteem is developed and these social comparisons can influence childhood self-esteem and an adolescent’s identity status (Broderick & Blewitt, 2015). Eccles (1999) classifies these stages of development as being socially dramatic due to the individual wanting to fit in somewhere. Social rejection from peers can influence the development with negative behaviors and feelings
Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Darli Ozbun PSY/250 April 18, 2011 University of Phoenix/Jorey Krawczyn Behavioral and Social/Cognitive Approaches to Forming Habits Behavioral and social/cognitive approaches to forming habits give insight and reasoning to habit formation. Behavioral approach looks solely on environmental influences. Social/cognitive approach looks at how people view their environments and how they are in relation to others. These approaches can be used with the analysis of an individual who continually asks if people are mad or upset with them. Development of a plan to change the habit through use of operant conditioning gives the individual the option for successful habit reformation.
ACTIVITY ONE – PSY 2301 – Measuring a Construct People are defined usually by their behavior; how they act in everyday and even non-everyday situations. This is especially true when interacting with society as a whole. Depending on the person, they can be various types of socializers depending on their blirtatiousness. For the most part though, people can be categorizes as Blurters, who usually say almost immediately what’s on their mind, or Brooders, who tend hesitate and deliberate before responding to others. In the BLIRT Test, which is an assessment test that tells if a person a Blurter or Brooder along with what level of self criticalness one has for themselves, I scored as a Brooder with a moderate level of self criticalness.
Question 2 How we seen ourselves in society is really a reflection of how our friend see us. Evaluate this statement using the arguments of Cooley and Mead. How we socialize in a society is based on how individuals view us and persons depend heavily on peers to make decisions, their opinion determines whether or not they feel accepted within a particular group or society. One’s sense of self is developed through interaction with agents of socialization, hence society personalizes individuals to the norms and values within the society. This view can be supported because according to Charles Horton Cooley (1902) individuals develop self-concept or a picture of themselves from their interaction with others, they use other individuals as a mirror to see themselves.
There is, however, some substantial similarity in how individuals respond to the same pattern of influences—that is, to being raised in the same culture. Furthermore, culturally induced behavior patterns, such as speech patterns, body language, and forms of humor, become so deeply imbedded in the human mind that they often operate without the individuals themselves being fully aware of them. Every culture includes a somewhat different web of patterns and meanings: ways of earning a living, systems of trade and government, social roles, religions, traditions in clothing and foods and arts, expectations for behavior, attitudes toward other cultures, and beliefs and values about all of these activities. Within a large society, there may be many groups, with distinctly different subcultures associated with region, ethnic origin,