PSYC 223 - Social Psychology

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course offers a degree of insight into the ways in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. This course will focus on the psychological processes people have in common that make them susceptible to social influence.

Prerequisite PSYC 201 or permission of instructor.

A. Examine and evaluate the systematic descriptions of social behavior that allow social psychologists to make behavioral generalizations.

B. Identify research in social psychology which attempts to establish cause-and-effect relations.

C. Analyze established theories in social psychology.

D. Identify ways in which social psychological research findings can be applied to solving common social issues.

Content
A. Theories and Methods in Social Psychology

B. Social Cognition

C. Social Perception

D. Self Understanding

E. Attitudes and Influence

F. Social Interaction and Relationships

G. Social Psychology and Health

H. Social Psychology and the Environment

I. Social Psychology, the Law and Politics

Student Evaluation
Evaluation will be based on exams, quizzes, research papers, projects, reports and/or journals as determined by the instructor.

Bibliography
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Aronson, Elliot, Timothy D. Wilson & Robert Ahert. Social Psychology. 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 1999.

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Dewey, John. Human Nature and Conduct. New York: The Modern Library, 1930.

Erikson, Erik. Childhood and Society. New York: Norton, 1963.

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Peck, M. Scott. A World Waiting to Be Born: Guility Rediscovered. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.

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