AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The sociocultural approach examines the influences of social and cultural environments on behavior. A major influence on people’s behavior, thought processes and emotions are other people and the society they have created.

Detailed explanation-2: -Social psychology is a branch of psychology that studies cognitive, affective, and behavioral processes of individuals as influenced by their group membership and interactions, and other factors that affect social life, such as social status, role, and social class.

Detailed explanation-3: -a social body or organization to which people belong as members, especially when they feel that the group has formally or informally accepted them into its ranks.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the social identity approach, a group is a group when the members experience social identity-when they define themselves in part by the group that they belong to and feel good about their group membership (Hogg, 2003, 2010).