Social Psychology Phenomena: Obedience to Authority Obedience is a social psychology phenomenon where people willingly do something to obey a certain figure of authority that instructed them to do something that conflicted with their moral sense. People obey those authority figures because they believe that they have lesser intellectual‚ power‚ experience or position than that figure. Obedience comes in many different forms‚ for example obedience to law‚ obedience to god‚ obedience to social norms
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Conformity is a form of social influence that involves you to change your beliefs to fit in with a group. This change is due to the physical presence of the group members‚ or imagined group pressure that involves the pressures of social norms. In the public services compliance with common practices is following a particular course of action which is the social norm. It can be seen when the police are dealing with suspects as the suspect is innocent until proven guilty and the law should not be taken
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Module 1: doing Social Psychology Wednesday‚ August 29‚ 2012 3:54 PM Social Psychology: The art of people-watching in a scientific manner. Theory: a broad explanation for a wide set of phenomena‚ strongly supported Concise: coherent‚ systematic‚ predictive‚ widely accepted. Strongly supported by many lines of evidence. Must be testable and falsifiable Generated more exploration Applicable to life Hypotheses: the edited Theory. What constitutes a good theory? Have your theory; generated
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I have encounter a lot of experiences with social influences‚ but out of all of them obedience stood out to me the most. Obedience is the most important social influences to me because it plays a big part of my everyday life. For example‚ when it comes to stopping at a stop sign‚ or when it comes to the rules of my job. I obey stopping at the stop sign and not speeding through it‚ and I also obey the rules of my job. So‚ when I hear the word obedience I start to think about when people obey the rules
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Social psychology is about understanding individual behavior in a social context. Baron‚ Byrne & Suls (1989) define social psychology as ....... “the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior in social situations”. (p. 6). It therefore looks at human behavior as influenced by other people and the social context in which this occurs. Social psychologists therefore deal with the factors that lead us to behave in a given way in the presence of others
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Module 1 Doing Social Psychology blz. 3 t/m 14 Social psychology The scientific study of how people think about‚ influence‚ and relate to one another. Forming and testing theories Theory An integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis A testable proposition that describes a relationship that might exist between events. Correlational research: detecting natural associations Correlational research The study of the naturally
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Social control is defined as the means and processes used by a society to ensure conformity to the group norms. One of the most important social control mechanisms is socialization‚ such as family‚ media‚ education‚ peers‚ and religion. These agents of socialization use rewards and punishments‚ sanctions‚ to modify behavior. One group in which I interact on a regular daily basis is friends. My friends are able to control my behavior throughout the use of socialization. For example‚ when I’m at school
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Leadership Lessons Learned in Interpersonal Group Dynamics Leadership Lessons Learned in Interpersonal Group Dynamics When I first started Interpersonal Group Dynamics I had no idea what to expect to learn for the next six weeks. It was merely a class I needed to work towards my degree in Strategic Leadership. Even though I’ve had plenty of leadership training in the Air Force (AF)‚ this course helped reinforce some of what I should have already been practicing. To be an effective leader you
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It is important to understand group dynamics in the business world because most businesses require that in order to function large numbers of employees must work together in order to achieve goals for the organization. Groups can take many forms. We will examine different types of groups and how they are designed. Group designs are based on the following principles: Introspection. Engaging in self-evaluation and a gap analysis of one ’s leadership profile with peers adds a special dimension
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Group Dynamics and Process Shifts of CoDA Groups During this meeting I observed many group concepts such as dynamics‚ processes events‚ and therapeutic factors. During the meeting there were many processes shifts indicating when the group was engaged or disengaged. This group began in a disengaged manner‚ with group members coming in late and not being attentive when the 12 steps and traditions were being read. Looking at the group proxemics‚ the group members were sitting in a circle with
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