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· Describe the five goals of science and analyze how social psychology responds to these goals.

· Description, Prediction, Determining causality, Explanation, and Control

 

· State whether social psychology is a scientific discipline. If so, what makes it a scientific discipline?

· Social psychology is the scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. The terms thoughts, feelings, and behaviors include all of the psychological variables that are measurable in a human being.

· Analyze how social psychologists design research to understand these core concepts.

· Social psychology is an empirical science that attempts to answer questions about human behavior by testing hypotheses, both in the laboratory and in the field. Careful attention to sampling, research design, and statistical analysis is important

· Explain how the study you are proposing fits into these categories of science in general and social science in particular.

· I want to reach conformity amongst middle and high school students and how it affects the outcome of cyber bullying  and group think behavior on the internet

 

· Describe some of the core ideas defined by social psychologists.

· Group dynamics group can be defined as two or more individuals that are connected to each other by social relationships.Groups tend to interact, influence each other, and share a common identity. They have a number of emergent qualities that distinguish them from aggregates

· Self-concept is a term referring to the whole sum of beliefs that people have about themselves.

·  Persuasion is an active method of influence that attempts to guide people toward the adoption of an attitude, idea, or behavior by rational or emotive means

 

Baxter, Vern Kenneth; Marina, Peter; Journal of Youth Studies, Vol 11(2), Apr, 2008. pp. 93-113.

Schneider, F. W., Gruman, J. A., & Coutts, L. M. (Eds.). (2012). Applied social psychology: Understanding and addressing social and practical problems (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. ISBN: 9781412976381

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