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Chapter One It would be important to educate our campus and community about social psychology because everyone is different in society and being able to understand people better would help us understand why people act a certain way and do things differently. It also helps to learn how the mind and body works together. In Orillia or at Georgian College There are always different social groups you see where ever you go and a lot of times those social groups influence the way people act, for example people like to show off in front of there friends all the time or will go to extremes
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When a person dresses odd everyone stares at them and views them as different just because they don 't dress like the other people in the society do and understanding social psychology would help us understand why people think that is wrong by dressing a certain way and why people try to just go with the flow of things instead of trying to go their own road and take there own adventure. Why are people influenced by others? Why do people act differently? Social psychology would help us understand these things better and could help a lot of people with there future careers because every job is different and you want to fit in when you get a new job so having social psychology could help you when you get a career by being able to understand your co-workers. Social psychology would be a good class because it would help us to not only understand others better but being able to understand your-self better which would helps to interact with one …show more content…
If you have to acted a certain way to get someone to like you then that person is not actually your friend, those are the friends that would never help you when you need it. You shouldn 't have to act differently or do things you normally wouldn 't do to make friends you should be able to be yourself. When I 'm being myself normally people accept it if I don 't feel like doing something my friends are doing ill just leave and go find something else to do they don 't mind. If I don 't want to do something I 'm not going to do it just because my friends are doing it. People may think its weird that i 'm not doing what others are doing or may not want to be around me because of it, but to me it really not a big deal if your not going to like some just because they wont do things that you do then may that person should change they think because everyone is different and should conform to what their friends do. For me when I be myself around my friends we always have a great time and its better when people act normal because you don 't want people in your group of friends that act differently because those are the friend that won 't be around for a long
Psychology is concerned with understanding, evaluating, alleviating, and preventing mental and emotional disorders and promoting human adaptation, adjustment, and personal effectiveness and satisfaction. Psychologists address the intellectual, emotional biological, psychological, social, and the many different behavioral aspects of human functioning across the lifespan, varying cultures, and all socioeconomic levels of humans. Psychology is an absolute science that creates research efforts to find and confirm data about what people are like and why they behave the way they do. Psychology is also a professional practice that provides health care services. Psychology is a merge of science and practice pursuits. The essence of psychology
Being someone else in not a good way to make a friend. We are all born how we are for a reason, so, embrace it. Your culture defines who you are. The short stories are "7th Grade" by Gary Soto and "Pink Hat" by Caroline Bond Day. Both stories represent that you should be who you are. Both authors, state that "being who you are is better than faking your identity.
When I entered my first year of college, I decided to pursue psychology as a major because I was interested in how people’s minds affect how they behave and their personalities. Despite not taking psychology classes in high school, I had a pretty good experience in knowing what was going on around my friends by observing their behavior, the tone in their voice, or actions, and I’ve learned to develop skills in offering good advice to them. It seemed useful to apply my skills to academics. However, I aspired to be more than just a regular psychologist. I wanted to find a deeper, interesting, and creative method that can help people who suffered personal issues, such as relationships and disorders.
...f doing things and also make it fun for them. There are a lot of interesting things to know about psychology and how they all can apply to your life, sometimes I find it overwhelming but at the same time fascinating, in psychology I didn’t only learn about the human but I learned about myself and all these things in this paper and by learning those things it has helped me learn to cope with some of my problems and make my life that much easier.
Social psychology is a broad amalgamation of sub disciplines with various differing ideas of best practice. Generally, Laboratory based psychology (i.e. the experimental method) focuses more on the individual as if they have universal characteristics than some other forms of social psychology. As we move into a society that increasingly favours the notion of the “individual over the social”, psychology appears to be shifting in the opposite direction with much of contemporary psychology becoming increasingly interested in context and its impact on behaviour. There are certainly issues with removing the
Conformity is a type of social influence in which individuals change their behaviour to adapt to social norms. There are two types of conformity. One is private conformity, you think that the behaviours of the group are correct so you adapt to the norm. In public conformity, you think that the behaviours of the group are not correct but you feel social pressure. You only conform when you are involved in a group.
We need positive psychology because we are compassionate creatures and believe those suffering need help, but we are ignoring the chances to make good situations better. It is important that we help those who need it, however; with positive psychology, we can help, those who need it while improving everyone's situations. Positive Psychology builds strengths and the brings forward the importance of positive experiences and positive relationships. All of the things Positive Psychology can help a per acquire can help them become a more successful, more functional, and
Social Psychology is the study of how we think and relate to other people. These psychologists focused on how the social situation influences others behavior. We see social influences everywhere we go, but might not notice it. Like when watching a movie for fun you do not notice it as much as when you are actually looking for the behaviors, like in the film The Breakfast Club. There are several examples of social psychological behaviors in the film.
Social psychology is a science that study social thinking (how we perceive ourselves and others, judgement we make and our attitudes); social influence (such as pressure to conform, group of people) and social relations such as aggression and helping (David G. Myers, 2008).
Group conformity can be defined as a change in a person’s behavior or opinions as a result or imagined pressure from a person or group of people. Conformity is basically just a type of social influence involving a change in belief and behavior in order to fit in with the group. There are different forms of conformity, for example, bullying, persuasion, teasing, and criticism. There have been many experiments in sociology investigating conformity or group pressure. One of the experiments that stood out to me the most was the Solomon Asch’s experiment. The experiment was tested to demonstrate the power of conformity in groups. This topic is very interesting because it makes me aware how society really is these days. It makes me wonder if I am
While in a group some people may feel uncomfortable, while I am alright in a group. I tend to get along with everyone in a group. If and when some one is bothering me I try to ignore them or express my feelings
Making rational assumptions about the human behavior is important because it guides people about how to predict, understand, explain, and control behavior (Psychology Today). In other words, an individual trained in the field of psychology gains huge insight about the human behavior. Consequently, she/he can interpret certain behaviors and detect the problematic ones. In fact, this is the main principle of psychology. I personally enjoy my knowledge on psychology to regulate my personal relationships through predicting, understanding, explaining and rarely controlling the behaviors of others. For example, when I used to work as a tutor for middle school children, regulating their behavior often allowed me to connect them on a different emotional level. I was able to help my students to focus on schoolwork without making them feel overwhelmed. Considering these reasons, it would be accurate to state that learning about psychology is really helpful in terms of making rational assumptions about the human
Sometimes I joke and say that I don’t know how to human, so learning more about social psychology would be helpful to learn more about myself and others. I want to learn how psychology affects person to person and how it affects society. Last year I watched a documentary called “The Century of The Self” that explains how psychology helped shape today’s world. The part in the documentary that really
That is partially due to finding it easier not talking to new people on the off chance that I will say the wrong thing. Also at times think of several possibilities of how I should talk to them, and have none of them come to pass. Often it is the other person who inevitability starts the conversation. Other times my quiet comes off as either uninterested or rigged to others, while in actuality in most cases I feel the opposite of how I appear. Finding a way to express that to others follows the same issues as the one previously stated, either over analyzing or not wanting to say the wrong thing. Therefore the few people that do become my friends I know I can rely on because they are willing to work with my social issues. Although when I become comfortable with a group of people these problems tend to disappear. While my behavior makes it difficult to make large numbers of friends I feel as though the quality of the few I have largely makes up for that
The dynamic conflicts in the social world are between acknowledgment and rejection, approval and disapproval, sociability and isolation. While some people blindly follow social groups in order to gain conformity, others prefer to live their lives in isolation.