Social Psychology Questions

1. Analyze precursors and consequences of human interaction in terms of social psychology concepts. 2. Explore basic concepts of human interaction from a social psychological perspective. 3.Define abnormal psychology in contrast to “normal psychology.” 4. Examine mental disorders and mental illness from the psychological perspective. 5. Compare and contrast therapies designed for each school of thought in psychology for treating mental disorders.

Social Constructionism: An Academic Paradigm

Social constructionism is an academic paradigm, what are its basic tenets and is it supported or refuted by the insights of the psychology of perception?

Brain Probing is shown.

This Brain Probe is considered: Imagine that we have a perfect, error-free measure of intelligence that uses something like headphones to measure a person’s actual mental ability. Suppose that this brain probe test is scored along the same scale as standard IQ tests: 100 is average. Now, imagine two 30-year-old city dwellers (from Atlanta, say) who had had similar upbringings without any special experience outside of typical urban life, and one of these people had a brain probe IQ of 95 and the other had a brain probe IQ of 140. If we dropped these two Atlantans separately into the Alaskan wilderness in January, who would be more likely to survive and be rescued? On what do you base... click for more

This posting overviews sociocultural and historical changes.

This solution names some sociocultural and historical changes that have affected families positively and negatively concerning adolescents.

Gay Teens

Do you agree or disagree that teens fear of rejection is the primary obstacle faced by gay teens?