RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE NEED FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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Prejudice
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Social Perception
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Aggression
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Brain Development
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Detailed explanation-1: -Social Thinking, Social Influence, and Social Behavior. Social psychology focuses on three main areas: social thinking, social influence, and social behavior.
Detailed explanation-2: -Six topics studied in social psychology are aggression, discrimination, group behavior, interpersonal relationships, prejudice, and violence. The four major perspectives of social psychology are sociocultural, evolutionary, social learning, and social-cognitive.
Detailed explanation-3: -Brain development is a lifelong process. Its development is most marked during the prenatal period when the embryonic precursors of the nervous system rapidly multiply, migrate, and begin to differentiate, forming a brain that at birth is similar in appearance and approaches 80% of the size of the adult brain.