AP PSYCHOLOGY

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

Detailed explanation-2: -Social Psychology is the scientific study of how these influences occur – it is about how people think, influence, and relate to one another.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social psychology examines how people affect one another, and it looks at the power of the situation. Social psychologists assert that an individual’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are very much influenced by social situations.

Detailed explanation-4: -Social psychology focuses on the inuence of people on one another.

Detailed explanation-5: -Social psychology focuses on how we interact with and relate to others. Social psychologists conduct research on a wide variety of topics that include differences in how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behaviors of others, prejudice, and attraction, and how we resolve interpersonal conflicts.