Module 13 Psych Soc Strategy - Interaction and Social Behavior

Suggested Assignments

Study the conceptual treatment of Social Behavior in your MCAT book-set and complete the odd numbered problems.

Continue review of the conceptual vocabulary for Social Behavior using the illustrated conceptual primer on this site.

Extend practice using the Essential Concepts ANKI Deck to include the Social Behavior cards. 

Integrated Course practice items:

Khan Academy Psychology Videos
Social behavior
Proximity and the mere exposure effect
Physical attraction
Similarity
Harlow monkey experiments
Secure and insecure attachment
Aggression
Altruism
Social support
Status
Role strain and role conflict
Primary and secondary groups
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group
Dramaturgical approach
Impression management
Three components of emotion and universal emotions
Social psychology
Conformity and groupthink
Conformity and obedience
Asch conformity studies (Asch line studies)
Events that inspired the Milgram studies on obedience
Milgram experiment on obedience
Zimbardo prison study The Stanford prison experiment
A closer look at the Stanford prison experiment
Factors that influence obedience and conformity
Bystander effect
Social facilitation and social loafing
Agents of socialization
Perspectives on deviance: Differential association, labeling theory, and strain theory
Aspects of Collective Behavior: Fads, Mass Hysteria, and Riots
Attitudes
Components of attitudes
Self control
Attitude influences behavior
Behavior influences attitude
Cognitive dissonance
Situational approach
Theories of attitude and behavior change
Persuasion, attitude change, and the elaboration likelihood model
Reciprocal determinism
Locus of control, learned helplessness, and the tyranny of choice
Social Perception
Attribution Theory - Basic covariation
Attribution theory - Attribution error and culture
Stereotypes stereotype threat and self fulfilling prophecies
Emotion and cognition in prejudice
Prejudice and discrimination based on race, ethnicity, power, social class, and prestige
Stigma - Social and self
Social perception - Primacy recency
Social perception - The Halo Effect
Social perception - The Just World Hypothesis
Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism in group and out group
Biological explanations of social behavior in animals
Animal behavior: foraging
Animal communication
Types of animal communication
Mating behavior and inclusive fitness
Evolutionary game theory