Social Psychology

a. Explain phenomena that result from the influence of the social environment on the individual and vice versa: include obedience, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander apathy, conformity such as Asch’s experiment, groupthink, group polarization, and deindividuation. 

b. Analyze attribution and cognitive dissonance theories pertaining to social judgments and attitudes. 

c. Explain the factors that contribute to affiliation and attraction, include: proximity, mere exposure effect, and similarity. 

d. Analyze and evaluate the ethics of experimentation in social psychology, include: Milgram’s experiment of obedience and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.