Week - 1 |
Greeting and the general introduction to the course and the importance of the course |
Week - 2 |
The discussion of how to define social psychology and the historical roots of modern social psychologyu |
Week - 3 |
The short history of social psychology and research methods in social psychology |
Week - 4 |
Social influence: Social influence and social pressure, Zimbardo's prison experiment and Sherif's otokinetic effect experiment |
Week - 5 |
Social influence: Asch's konformity experiments and Milgram's obedience experiments |
Week - 6 |
Social Influence: Minority effcet (the definition of minority and majority, Mpscovici's minority effect experiment, the discussion of single effect or dual effect ) |
Week - 7 |
Attitudes: The definition of attitude, the history of the concept of attitude and the structural properties of attitude |
Week - 8 |
Attitudes: The relationship between attitude and behaviour (historically and analitically) |
Week - 9 |
Attitudes: Attitude change (Balance theories and attitude change as persuasion) |
Week - 10 |
Prejudice: The definition of prejudice, the brief history of prejudice studies in social psychology, the definition of stereotype and stereotype studies |
Week - 11 |
Prejudice: The definition and the kinds of discrimination, and the relationship between prejudice and discrimination |
Week - 12 |
Prejudice: Theories of prejudice (social cognition, authoritarian personality theory and right wing authoritarian theory) |
Week - 13 |
General overview |