AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Social psychologists study how social influence, social perception and social interaction influence individual and group behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Like all scientific fields, social psychology has a number of subfields in which researchers conduct experiments. Three popular subfields include the study of attitudes, the idea of self-concept and group dynamics.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the relationship between mental states and social situations, studying the social conditions under which thoughts, feelings, and behaviors occur, and how these variables influence social interactions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social p sychology is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others (Allport 1998). By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of investigation.

Detailed explanation-5: -Social influence describes how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors respond to our social world, including our tendencies to conform to others, follow social rules, and obey authority figures. Social influence takes two basic forms: implicit expectations and explicit expectations.