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). At times social environments or situations manipulate behaviors contrary to emotions, overpowering feelings and allowing the situation to guide behaviors. Another ideas of social psychology is that personal attitudes and depositions shape behavior, this describes the belief that inner attitudes and personalities
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Alice F. Brown Psy 450 May 21, 2013 Shally Vaid Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Culture is defined as a set of attitudes, behaviors, and symbols that are shared by a group of people and passed down from generation to generation (Shiraev & Levy, 2010). Cultural psychology is about finding links that are meaningful between a culture and how an individual thinks who lives in the same culture (Shiraev & Levy, 2010). How an individual internalizes his or her culture is the basis of cultural psychology. Cross-cultural psychology is the study of cultures in a comparative and critical method by psychologists. Cross-cultural psychologists are interested in the similarities and differences in all cultures.
Last but not least, I would like to give examples and give my point of view on the word sociology, such as what does it mean to me! First, I would like to define and explain what sociology means to me! Sociology explores people and society. It examines our social institutions; our families, the state and social relationships like gender and ethnicity, to help make sense of how we both see and interpret our rapidly changing world. Sociology examines how our behavior individually and in groups is influenced by social processes and what that means.
What is psychosocial studies? How can this type of approach help us to a better understanding of the self and society? Psychosocial studies is a combination between psychology and sociology. By putting psychology and sociology together we get two slightly different viewpoints and understandings about the self and society. In psychology people such as Freud, Maslow and Rogers play an important role in understanding the self, whereas society can be explained by sociological figures such as Durkheim in sociology.
Having Fun With Operational Definitions Adapted from teachpsychscience.org Directions: Identify and operationally define the independent and dependent variables in each of the following research ideas. Research Idea #1: A social psychologist was interested in whether people are more likely to exhibit conformity when they are in situations that make them feel nervous and unsure of themselves. What is the independent variable? How would you define it operationally? What is the dependent variable?
The Diverse Nature of Psychology PSY 490 Name April 22, 2013 The Diverse Nature of Psychology The diverse nature of psychology is to study and understand the mental processes of human behavior. There are various aspects to consider when studying such complexity of the human body and its behavior. This paper will evaluate the influence of diversity in the field of psychology’s major concepts. Two examples of major concepts and of subtopics will be presented and how they can be applied to other disciplines. In addition, the author will expand on the personal theoretical perspective of how she feels her knowledge will contribute to her psychological society.
Describe two research methods used in Sociology: According to the University of North Carolina, Sociology is described as “The study of human social relationships and institutions.” Sociology uses several research methods to study social relationships and institutions including quantitative research and observational research. Quantitative research uses numerical values to turn data into numbers. It can often involve surveys or questionnaires to collect statistics in the form of numerical data. The data is then analyzed by obtaining the average within the data collected. Common mathematical calculations of mean, median and mode are used to collect the average in the research.
Sociological Theory, Volume 6, No. 2. American Sociological Association. The authors provide an overview of basic choice theory and its building blocks. The authors attempt to look at why people use rational choice and what causes the chain reaction of events that occurs once a choice is made.
Prejudice is mostly assessed through self- report questionnaires, responses to questionnaires are influenced by social desirability Bias, which is the tendency to give socially approved answers, (Eyesnck, 2000). Sigall and Page designed a procedure to look whether the responses to questionnaires are
From this assumption, the development of numerous models is to provide various ways to study personality and consider factors for application on various settings. One example of an assessment model is the Myers Biggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The purpose of this approach is to categorize individuals according to the different personality types provided by psychologists Carl Jung (Business Balls.com, 2006). Among key indicators considered in this evaluation consider behavioral preferences and careful understanding of personal strengths and weaknesses. The component of this method is the ability to pair specific traits that comprise of (1) extraversion or introversion, (2) sensing or intuition, (3) thinking or feeling, and (4) judging or perceiving (Engler,