1 2 breakout session blog significant contributor

Breakout sessions allow you to interact closely with your peers to exchange ideas about the content you are learning. For each breakout session blog, you will have the opportunity to explore big ideas in the field of social psychology, influence your classmates’ thinking, and evaluate how your own learning evolves through these interactions. For this assignment, you will submit an initial blog post and one follow-up post.

Respond to the following prompts:

Initial Post: After completing this week’s selected readings (ATTACHED – chapter 2), reflect upon the history of social psychology and the people who have contributed to the field. How has the field changed or not changed over the course of history? Who do you believe was the most significant contributor to the creation and evolution of social psychology throughout its history? Explain your reasoning.

Follow-Up Post: In a new post, synthesize what you have learned during this module’s blogging activities. Has your thinking changed from exchanging ideas with classmates and experiencing their perspectives? How do you feel an understanding of the history of social psychology can inform how you analyze classic and modern theories and research?

To complete this assignment, review the Breakout Session Blog Rubric document.

BELOW ARE A FEW INITIAL POSTS FROM CLASSMATES TO HELP YOU WITH THE FOLLOW-UP POST.

STUDENT ONE:

After reviewing the readings, I believe that the field in itself hasn’t changed throughout the years. What I understood from the reading is that it is more of a collaboration of ideas that grew throughout the years. In fact, the reading suggest that there is not an exact time when it started, but instead more of how social psychology evolved from the mere definition of what social psychology is in the first place (Finkel & Baumeister, 2010). I also think that social psychology has payed a lot of attention to the origins and continuing to contribute to ideas from the past. It is not really beginning to end and established, rather it continues to evolve as. researchers and scientists insert new theories and ideas. What really caught my attention is that the authors mentioned that social psychology can go in a new direction or grow from old ideas, but in order to go in a new direction, you have had to come from some type of origin (Finkel & Baumeister, 2010). Therefore, not forgetting about past theories and ideas is important, but at the same time, continue to grow from these ideas. Additionally, I believe the most significant contributor was Allport. I believe he was the most significant contributor because he made it clear what social psychology is. He pretty much said that social psychology is part of the psychology of the individual (Finkel & Baumeister). It was also mentioned that the evolution of social psychology and the growth expansion was due to Allport’s thinking. Therefore, he really made me understood what social psychology is.

References

Finkel, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2010). Advanced Social Psychology : The State of the Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=324042&site=ehost-live&scope=site

STUDENT TWO:

Because social psychology is focused on understanding and explaining how an individual’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other humans (SNHU, n.d.), I agree with Finkel & Baumeister when they stated the theory of social psychology dates back to at very minimal “the origins of recorded history” (2010). This is evident by the laws found in Babylonian defining social rules and laws their society lived by; and Hinduism scripture that talks about the influence of society on the self (Finkel & Baumeister, 2010). From Aristotle who believed in the necessity of understanding “how the social environment affects the individual” (Finkel & Baumeister, 2010) to Plato and Socrates, there is no denying the role social philosophers played in setting the ground for modern social psychology. Authors Finkel and Baumeister dates “the emergence of the field” between 1850 – 1930, where the term social psychology first appeared in a writing by an Italian philosopher in 1864 by the name of Carlo Cattaneo; while ending with Floyd Allport’s experiments at Syracuse University and him becoming the co-author of the first journal using the term, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology and Social Psychology.

The biggest influence on social psychology in between 1930-1945 was by far Kurt Levin and his overall belief that the individual person and social environment influenced behavior. His biggest contribution was founding the Research Center for Group Dynamics in year 1945 (Finkle & Baumeister, 2010). His belief of applied researched had a lasting impact on the field, although it wasn’t until the 1950’s and 1960’s experimentation became the preferred method of research (Finkle & Baumeister 2010); and between 1970 and 1990 is where we find social cognition research thriving and became the predominant approach to social psychology. However, today’s modern social psychology’s move towards biology in the form of neuroscience and the use of fMRI, would have to be the biggest contributor to the evolution of social psychology. This is due to its ability to capture “patterns of brain activation associated with psychological processes” (Finkel & Baumeister, 2010). This science combined with the historical practice of social psychology in using observational research, will expand the field in directions it has never taken before.

References:

Finkel, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2010). Advanced Social Psychology : The State of the Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.snhu.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=324042&site=ehost-live&scope=site

Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), n.d. Retrieved from:https://learn.snhu.edu/content/enforced/242779-PSY-530-Q5302-OL-TRAD-GR.19TW5/Course%20Documents/PSY%20530%20Final%20Project%20Guidelines%20and%20Rubric.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=01R2lf4PXReNpCigp1RHO0BRd

STUDENT THREE:

Social sciences seem to always have a cloud of doubt hanging over them. We often see journal after journal defending the work and expertise of any social science, yet many run towards them when medicine can’t solve the problem. Social Psychology is defined as a study of how one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors change because of other people. The history of social psychology has had a large variety of concepts such as conformity, obedience, prejudice, aggression, and empathy just to name a few. In this weeks reading, Finkel and Baumeister (2010) examined the history of social psychology and the mark it has made on the field of social science.

In order for this social science to evolve and stay relevant, it’s history must be acknowledged. Maya Angelou was said, “If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going”. I thought of this when reading how so many people had an influence on social psychology and doors it has opened to aid other social sciences to help with discovering how to interpret behavior, feelings, and thoughts. Edward E. Jones (1985) expressed how social psychology along with other social sciences were becoming a “fad” due to certain topics are only active for a time and the dissipate. Well, we can say that about anything today. How relevant are issues in society today? The field has definitely changed in the notion of a “quick fix” era versus the years of research that was manually done before technology emerged. Yet we can not discredit the trailblazers like William James, Wilhelm Wundt, or Kurt Lewin who pioneered the early stages of social psychology and how it has evolved throughout history. These are the shoulders that other have stood on to make their mark in defining this social science.

Finkel, E. J., & Baumeister, R. F. (2010). Advanced Social Psychology: The State of the Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jones, E. E. (1985). Major developments in five decades of social psychology. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology ( 3rd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 3-57). New York: Random House.

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