Understanding Social Psychology Quiz

Social psychology focuses on the interaction of humans and explores how our behavior is influenced by and influences others in social situations.

Social psychology is defined as the scientific study of the experience and behavior of the individual in relation to social stimulus situations and the scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to others.

Gordon W. Allport believes that social psychology seeks to understand and explain how an individual's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the presence of others, whether real, imagined, or indirectly implied.

Baron and Byrne define social psychology as the scientific field that seeks to comprehend the nature and causes of individual behavior in social situations.

The 'Role' approach in social psychology assumes that roles are functional aspects related to specific positions in a social context.

Tasha Ekaputri and Social Cognition discuss how individuals think about themselves and the social world, including the selection, interpretation, recall, and use of social information to make judgments and decisions.

Automatic Thinking involves nonconscious, unintentional, involuntary, and effortless decision-making.

Schemas help to understand what is happening around us and fill in the 'gap' of our existing knowledge.

Korsakov’s syndrome is the loss of the ability to form new memories, making the individual feel as if they are always in a new situation even if they have experienced it many times. This relates to Automatic Thinking as it demonstrates the impact of memory on our interpretation of situations.

The accessibility of Schemas in Automatic Thinking can be influenced by past experiences (Priming), the active use of Schemas to interpret ambiguous situations, and their relevance to the current goals.