Reflection Of Social Psychology

This source was written by Madelijn Strick, Rob W. Holland, Rick Van Baaren, and Ad Van Knippenberg. Madelijn Strick is a psychologist at Utrecht University and has a PhD in social psychology. She works at Radboud University teaching social influences and consumer behavior. Her main interest is in human emotions and decision making. She was awarded “best dissertation award” of the Dutch Association of Social Psychology. She and along with the other authors are trying to figure out how people make personal decisions. This shows her credibility for writing this article. Rob W. Holland also has a PhD from Radboud University and is a professor in Nijmegen. He was also awarded the “best dissertation award” for his research on the influence of attitudes and behaviors as a function of motivational orientation.

Tennis taught me about learning to lose. As a freshman who had never played tennis, I was elated to start on the varsity team. Playing the number three position on my school’s, I lost match after match to people with years of experience. There were days where I questioned why I put myself in a position of constant defeat, and let myself lose with a personal and team record of 1-12. Our team may have finished last in the league, but I was not hopeless. In the next years, I sought not to focus on what I could not change, the points, games, sets, or matches that were over. I was constantly playing in the offseasons, working to get better. The next season, our team moved up to third in the league. I improved to an 8-5 record-- fighting through

The study of how people’s behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are swayed by our interactions with others is known as social psychology. It’s the scientific study of human behavior that is influenced people that leads us to behave in a certain ways that causes a particular behavior in the social setting that it occurs. Psychologists than research why the dynamics of the social situation leads a person to act in a way, and the conditions to cause that particular feeling, behavior and action to occur using the psychological variables that is measurable in a person. In social psychology areas that are studied is social influence, social cognition, self-concept, group processes, interpersonal processes, attitudes, aggression, stereotypes, discrimination and prejudice. These social influences come from things like persuasion, peer pressure, conformity pressures, and culture. (Myers,

Self-serving bias “is” the “tendency to attribute positive events” to one’s “own character (self-enhancing bias)”, while “attributing the negative events to external factors”, which refers to “the actions” or “inaction of others” (Sheppard, Malone, & Sweeny, 2008). People have the “tendency to deny any personal responsibility when it comes to their own failures”, and this is called our (“self-protection bias”) (Coleman, 2011, p. 345). When speaking of self-enhancing bias, we are talking about a person’s “internal abilities”, such as “personal traits”, the amount of “effort” we put into things, and “skills” they posse (Shepperd, Malone, & Sweeny, 2008). A person who

Let's discuss some elements of the self-serving bias. First individuals often seem to have an unrealistic optimism. You can call this the "It won't happen to me" attitude. Optimism predisposes a positive approach to life. Sometimes this unrealistic optimism can make an individual seem larger than life. For example, students who are overconfident tend to under prepare. Another example of unrealistic optimism can be seem in newly weds. Most couples marry feeling confident of long term love when in reality half of all marriages fail. The false consensus effect is the tendency to overestimate the commonality of one's opinions and one's undesirable or unsuccessful behaviors. When we behave badly or fail in a task we reassure ourselves by thinking that such mistakes are common. Individuals presume that others have the same

Social psychology is a subfield discipline of psychology that concentrates on how an individual or group of individuals feel, react and think based on certain conditions or situations they are involved in. It is an empirical science which main objective is to interpret and rationalize the relationship between the thoughts, attitudes and emotions of a person or group of people which can be predisposed by the indirect, illusionary or be mere presence of other person or group of person through evaluating and endeavoring to validate such hypotheses. Social psychologists do not rely on folk wisdom which can be influenced by skewed interpretations as well as subjective thoughts and opinions. Instead, social psychologists

My heart leaps as it is obvious my opponent cannot reach it in time, but then it drops to the pit of my stomach as the ball sails past the baseline. I hear my teammates groan behind me, and I grudgingly walk up to the net and shake my contender’s hand. The final score was 6-0. I did not win a single game. Avoiding the eyes of my teammates and coach, I shove my racquet away along with my water bottle and clothes, and slouch my way back towards the bus. On the drive back to school, I sat alone. Staring out the window watching building upon building pass by, I felt empty inside. I thought that I had practiced enough. All those hours of drills, scrimmages, and runs I had completed seemed useless in that moment. As the bus pulled into the school’s parking lot, I quickly got my possessions ready and dashed off. The next day, I did not go to practice. Instead, I wallowed in my despair, pitying myself and shutting everyone out. The weekend came, and I finally decided to go out for a run to let off some steam. As my shoes pounded against the concrete, I found peace as the pent up anger and sadness slipped away. I pass by a tennis court, and catch a glimpse my friends practicing inside. Stopping to catch my breath, I watch as they worked nonstop on their form and positioning. All positive results need effort first. I walked in and joined them. From that day on, I

For years, things have happened in history and when we look back at it today we wonder how something like that could have occurred. You’ve heard the old saying that history has a way of repeating itself. I think this is because of our basic human instincts in life. As humans, we feel the need to be accepted by others in our society. Social Psychology focuses a lot on the way we think about ourselves and how others perceive us and at the end of the day it is clear that we long to be accepted. I want to dive a little further into that and focus on why is that so and at what cost will we go to in order to fit in? Do we keep our moral about us or do we throw that completely out of the window just to be accepted by society? We have clear cases

My initial behavioral change was to work on my social anxiety and ultimately be able to confidently interact with peers and participate in the classroom setting. My initial goals were to develop a sense of confidence that allows me to thrive in my education as I have faced some setbacks because of my nervous nature. Over the duration of this assignment, I found a great improvement in my behavior. Although I did not completely mastered the art of socializing nor do I feel completely comfortable with my surrounds at this point in time, I believe that I have come a long way from where I started. I realized my goals were more attainable by making them more realistic pertaining to my capabilities. By adjusting my goals I was able to surpass them and then set new goals to continually challenge myself along the way. For example, one of my initial goals was to speak out during class whenever I had some confusion about a topic. However, because I am not comfortable with speaking out, I found it to be more realistic for me to wait after class and speak to the professor one on one rather than asking out loud with the class present. There is still a great deal of work to be made on my part, but overall I think that I made an improvement and would say that I have been successful with the overall aspect of this project.

The society in which we live in today places an enormous amount of pressure on individuals to be better than others, and failure in this is not an option. There is a belief that success is only success if you are doing better than the people around you. This competition has become part of who we are, almost as though it is part of our core, meaning ere our self-image is so important to us that preserving it is a vital part of how we attribute success. A part of having a high self-esteem and positive self-image is the idea that Myers defines as self-serving bias “the tendency to perceive oneself favorably” (Myers 63). Although the self-serving bias contributes to a positive self-image,

Self-serving biases means the person will personal credits on their own success while reproaching the outside source when they fail the certain stuff. This tendency to misremember events in a particular direction is one of the strategies that people use to feel good about themselves (Sanderson, 2010).

Social psychology is the study of the way that social interactions affect the behavior of an individual (Spielman, 2007). Social psychology seeks to explain the ways in which the behavior of others can impact an individual’s thinking, personality, attitudes or other mental processes (Spielman, 2007). In a broad sense, social psychology is a discipline which attempts to navigate the variances between an individual’s behavior in solitude and in various social settings. Often, this discipline is used today to explain curious behaviors in humans such as the Bystander Effect (which is the tendency towards humans to push responsibility to act onto others if there are multiple who witness a situation in need of rectifying) and instances of

This semester has been filled with informative information when speaking about our own social skill, but also other people’s social psychology as well, thus is why it will be very useful in future. Throughout the semester we studied everything from the introduction of social psychology, social influences, aggression in psychology, and interpersonal attraction and close relationships. A lot of the knowledge that I gained was not only from the “Social Psychology” textbook, but also in the videos and the reactions that we needed to come up with on a weekly basis. I like the idea of being able to watch the video to see if the experiment was successful or unsuccessful and commenting on it by giving my opinion if I agreed or not. For me,

Some topics examined in social psychology include: the self-concept, attitudes, social cognition, attribution theory, social influence, group processes, interpersonal processes, aggression, attitudes and stereotypes. I will focus on self-concept, attitudes, the social cognition and the attribution theory. Self-concept in social psychology deals with the individual’s ability to be aware of oneself is to have a concept of oneself. David Bem’s self-perception theory states that individuals make inferences about their attitudes by perceiving their behavior. (King, 2016) If someone has a positive perspective of themselves they are less likely to be

The movie has several scenes that warrant further reflection, that are specific to counseling process that deals with emotional and angry outbursts and attempts of making connections. The first scenes that warrant further reflection is the following: On day two of class she begins to think outside of the box to teach her students in a manner that will not only bring forth order in the class but also within their lives while trying to make a connection with them in a way that each one can understand and identify with. She begins class with challenging two of the students to a karate matches; after two of the students try to teach her some karate moves she tells them that they do not know shit, but if you keep trying then you will learn it (Smith 1999). This gets the students’ attention and they begin to listen to Mrs. Johnsons as she explains that starting now that all of them have a clean slate which gives them an A, and all that you have to do is try to keep it (Smith, 1999). The next scenes that warrant further reflections is when she writes two phrases on the board of “I want to die” and “I choose to die” and gives them poetry to read that is related to their lifestyles of drugs, death, and gang. She uses these two phrase and the poetry to encourage them to believe in themselves and their ability to build a foundation of educations, respect for others, and improve their lifestyle. The last sets of scenes that warrant further reflection deals with a huge physical fight