1_Histories of Social Psychology

The individual and human behaviour.

The psychological processes of others.

How society shapes our perceptions of self.

How the self became what it is now.

Don't draw enough attention to the underlying individual differences.

Ignore societal issues.

Are becoming outdated.

Gets overlooked and thus needs more research.

It's not being unbiased.

It's negating from other views.

It's delving too much into something that doesn't require a lot of thought.

It's being naive.

Focusing on social differences.

Focusing on individual differences.

Focusing on how thoughts are shaped by cultural and historical context.

Focusing on the underlying inhibitions of the self.

Focusing on the cognitive disorders that perpetuate these thoughts and beliefs.

The self is best thought of as an entity of social society, and everything is intermixed as a result.

The self is too complex to divulge into, and we must look elsewhere. This is a waste of time.

The self is a separate entity and causes its own human behaviour, but we need to look at society as a whole.

We must focus on the evolutionary approaches instead.

How raw individual stimuli is perceived as a group in a multitude of ways.

How groups of raw stimuli can be perceived as individual elements in different ways.

How stimuli can affect our perception of our own individual differences and in others.

How stimuli can alter our thoughts and beliefs of society.

Neutral stimuli cannot condition certain responses.

Neutral stimuli can condition certain responses.

Animals have a different mindset to conditioning than humans.

Animals think similarly to humans in certain aspects.

They taught the child to be afraid of the white rabbit that he was exposed to.

They taught the child to be friendly towards the white rabbit that he was exposed to.

They taught the child to feed the white rabbit in order for it to survive.

They taught the child that it is wrong to look at a white rabbit.

The understanding of human behaviour is in how individuals perceive their environment.

The understanding of human behaviour is in how individuals perceive themselves.

The understanding of human behaviour is in how individuals perceive their cultural and historical backgrounds.

The understanding of human behaviour is in how individuals perceive those around them.

How they perceive other individuals belonging to certain groups.

How they perceive the society around them.

How they perceive themselves.

How they perceive existentialism.

How they perceive their cultural and historical backgrounds.

The metaphorical mind.

The physical mind.

The body.

The society that we live in.

The perception of others.

Our thoughts and beliefs come from the environments that we inhabit and experience.

Our cognitions come from nothing and are not representative of the environment.

Our thoughts and beliefs are passed on from mothers, fathers, and people before us, and carried on to the next.

Through spells.

Through religion.

Through physical experimentation.

Through obervsation.

The individual self in smaller parts.

People other than ourselves.

The individual as a whole.

The world in smaller parts.

The world as a whole.

Looking at language, myth, and customs, but also the wider social and historical contexts.

Looking inside the individual self for smaller measurable and analytical variables.

Looking at the social community for why individual cognitions come to form.

Looking at when individual cognitions are developed.

It was too individualistic.

It was not individualistic enough.

It ignored everyone else's views.

It took on too many critics' views.

Social psychology's technical terminology doesn't challenge the theories built by other researchers, but instead fits in with what they are trying to see themselves.

Social psychology's technical terminology does little to help us better understand ourselves and therefore must be improved.

Social psychology's technical terminology cannot go further without expanding its vocabulary. It's far too limited.

The guards were even more aggressive than those in the Stanford experiment.

The guards and prisoners cohabitated the building with little distress or problems arising.

The prisoners were aggressive and challenged authority regularly.

The prisoners began to fight between themselves as time wore on.

That the Stanford experiment's instructions to the guards probably distorted their powers of authority, leading to the results that it gave.

There was too much control over the roles, thus it was completely unrealistic.

He didn't do enough to maintain a status quo.

He should have filmed it in order to better assess what behaviours would have been if both the guards and prisoners were watched.

It supports SIT.

It does not support SIT.

It supports evolutionary approaches to social psychology instead.

It supports epistemological approaches to social psychology instead.

Gave convincing supportive evidence to SIT in terms of resisting authority.

Didn't give enough evidence to support SIT in terms of resisting authority.

Should be replicated without the disclosure of both groups being filmed.

Should be replicated to add a third group and observe its effects.

It gave strong empirical support to social identity theory with how it functions a guard-prisoner dynamic in realistic settings.

It is highly unrealistic and doesn't add much value to the argument of social identity theory, largely because of the concepts being used (e.g. filming, promotion).

He criticised it for being extremely inauthentic and unlike any real prison in the world.

He supported it for its potential to draw out interesting social behaviours in how the group of prisoners would behave.

He felt it was a necessary tool to assess and analyse those involved.

He felt that it only served to reiterate that the surroundings both the guards and prisoners were in were not real.

It was necessary to gain footage of what was happening.

It only increased the guards and prisoners' self-awareness.

How individual cognitions are shaped by ourselves, and not by society, because it's only about us.

How we need to consider the environment - both physically and socially - within which behaviour occurs. It has an undervalued status.

How every situation is dependent on what we see and interpret it to be.

That our behaviour is not always rational and that we cannot always assume that we will act in the best interests of what we think and know at the time.

That we will always weigh the pros and cons of every situation we are in based on what others think compared to what we feel.

That, theoretically, individuals will always make their decisions based on rational and logical thinking that correlate with what benefits them most.

It looks at the social cognitions that manifest within ourselves.

It looks at the social cognitions that are determined purely by people other than ourselves.

It looks at how people process and understand social information.

It focuses in on the group as an entire identity, rather than a collection of individuals. Many individuals, but one directive.

It focuses in on how the individual creates its own group to become an identity through its own self-serving schemas.

It focuses in on to what extent we need to understand group identity to be a key factor in our individual cognitions.

How we can establish new traits as a species that will benefit those not here for generations.

How human social behavioural traits can be found in other intelligent species. Our 'instinctive' behaviour has affected other our existence (e.g. attraction, aggression, group mentality).

How other cultures have influenced our thought patterns.

How our own cultures have influenced our thought patterns.

How others develop the individual cognitions that affect our thought on a regular basis.

How differences in culture (particularly Eastern vs. Western ideologies) affect the way that we see ourselves and others who are not like our own selves.

Researching how others form the world that we see and the environment that we inhabit.

How shared thoughts, beliefs, and principles have become 'common sense' and collective understandings that circulate around society.

How social behaviours have changed over time, from the beginning until now.

How an ideal world would shape the way society works as a whole, together, in a much better way.

How individuals shape their own thoughts, beliefs, and the importance of the individualistic self, not society.

How an ideal world would be, theoretically, without certain cognitions.

How talk can construct our realities.

How different social views can affect conversations with others to explain the world around is.

None of the above.

How conversations help to form individual cognitions.

The analysis of social interactions, specifically conversations.

How we see ourselves before and after conversations with others.

Shaftesbury

Reid

Locke

Freud

Wundt

James