Journal # 21: Social Psychology
Monday, April 27
We revised our "breaking social norms" ideas for psychology class. A fe wof them were not appropirate and would not work. Thererfore, we had to find a way around them and rework them or ammit them and think of something new. I think the ideas we came up with were pretty clever.
Tuesday, April 28
Today we checked with Mr. Bherenwald to check and make sure that it was okay to use our phones before school for our inside school expierement, walking down the hall and holding peoples hands, and we got approved so we should be able to start our expierement soon, hopefully tomorrow.
Wednesday April 29
We spent the beguining of class picking out of dissorders that we are going to reserch and present on. And for the second part of class we were in the computer lab researching the facts that we are puttin ginto our journals about our dissorder. I choose anorexia nervosa.
Thurday April 30
I spent the beguining of my time in the lab working on redesigning my page and the rest of my time researching anorexia nervosa. Kind of been a slow day.
Friday May 1
Absenct
Monday May 4
Today we picked out times and which expierement to conduct first this week and when to put them into our video. and then when to edit the clips together to make it smooth for presentation.
Tuesday May 5-May 7
My group members have been working on getting evidence of how we're breaking social norms for our psychology project. I've been wokring on my disease and how to include the vocab in the explaining of our videos and how it applies to psychology which I'm presenting with Keaton.
Friday May 8
self concept: the individual’s belief about himself or herself, including the person’s attributes and who and what the self is
social cognition: how we interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the social world
attribution theory: deals with how the social perceiver uses information to arrive at causal explanations for events. It examines what information is gathered and how it is combined to form a casual judgment
social influence: the change in behavior that one person causes in another, intentionally or unintentionally, as a result of the way the changed person perceives themselves in relationship to the influencer, other people and society in general. Three areas of social influence are conformity, compliance and obedience
conformity: the most common and pervasive form of social influence. It is informally defined as the tendency to act or think like members of a group. In psychology, conformity is defined as the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.
compliance: a social influence of words, actions, or mere presence other people have on thoughts, feelings, attitudes or behavior of another individual or group
obedience: explaining how social factors influence human behavior based on the tendency to comply with the commands of those in authority
prejudice: an unjustified or incorrect attitude (usually negative) toward an individual based solely on the individual’s membership of a social group
discrimination: the behavior or actions (usually negative) towards an individual or group of people, especially on the basis of sex/race/social class, etc.
stereotypes: a fixed, over generalized belief about a particular group or class of people
attitudes: an enduring organization of beliefs, feelings and behavioral tendencies towards socially significant objects, groups, events or symbols
bystander effect: a social psychology phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present
