Question

Use application of Social Psychology on a problem or issue.
Whatever the issue/problem identified, please be clear and concrete defining it.  For example, “climate change” is not a very good topic. Instead, “recycling behaviors on campus” or “political support for sustainable energy production” would be better. State the problem and explain why it is a problem in 1-2 sentences. The problem itself is not the main focus of the paper, however. Rather, it should be a paper about how Social Psychology can (a) help one understand a cause of problem, and (b) suggest a solution to the problem.

Please write about how Social Psychology can (a) help one understand a cause of problem, and (b) suggest a solution to the problem. Focus on applying a small number (1 or 2) of Social Psychological principles to the issue with a complex, thoughtful analysis. The solution proposed should follow directly from the cause described.

Answer 1

Social psychology is basically a study, from which we can know how people thinks on a matter. Social psychology is becoming popular from the 20th century. Social psychology helps to identify the cause and effects of an event.

Applications of Social psychology

• Social psychology tries to find out how the thoughts, behaviour of someone can influence the others. Basically it helps to recognise how a small group can affects the cognition and emotional states of someone's.
• Social psychology helps to understand what is a group ? What is the functions of a small or large group?
• Helps to understand the role of individual's in a group. Like we can have the funtional ideas of the group leader, group members and about the group also.
• Hepls to understand the reasons of Conformity, Deviance and diversity.

These are the basic applications of social psychology, There are also many other matter in which social psychology can helps to get rid and identify the cause.

Prejudice- Prejudice of an individual group can be identified by the help of social psychology. Prejudice have many types. Its always depending upon the situation and peoples. A person's prejudice is formed when he or she starts interacting or socializing with her or his family members or friends. For example, A child starts hate a country or a religion only when his or her family hates the religion also. So we can understand that Prejudice is a kind of biasness and it has no connection with truth or reality.We can find out the prejudice only by the analysis of social psychology.

Causes of the Prejudice-

Depends on situation- Situation and environment always leads to the prejudice.When we born, we were like a blank document.We starts to get prejudice when the socialisation process begins. So we can stated that prejudice comes directly from the environment and situation.

Society- Society plays an important role in formation of Prejudice. Every person adopts some values, beliefs amd attitudes when they starts interacting with others. As an example, if society beliefs in discriminations between a man and a woman . Then the members of the society will also start doing so.

Conformity - When we are a member of an individual group, we starts follow the ethics, the rules and the beliefs of the particular group. This can create prejudice for other groups.Group leader always motivates the group members to maitain the same kinds of attitude, beliefs and thinking. So members start believing in the ethics,thinking of the group without considering anything.

Frustration- Researchers have got some relevant evidence that, frustration always helps to create prejudice.For example, if a single group is unable to reach the altimate goal for some other groups, then it will create prejudice for this specific group.That particuar group starts believing that the other group is week and has not enough capability. This kind of thinking can rise the prejudice.

How to deal with this problem

interaction with target group-According to Allport, Interaction always helps to reduce prejudice. So a healthy interaction between the prejudiced group and target group always effective for reducing prejudice.

Proper Education- Some researches stated that, a proper education plays a important role in reducing prejudice. Formal and informal both education helps to reduce such kinds of prejudice from the mind and leads to accept the real facts.

Antiprejudice flims or movies- Some psychologist stated that, documentary flims also helps to reduce prejudice. Some studies also found that a documentary against the prejudice always works better than any formal or informal education.

Personality Treatment or Therapy- We can only apply this technique on a man, who is having a stable personality and wise knowledge. If a person is biased and prejudiced for a single reason then it can be treated by the help of Therapetic treatment. This kind of treatment helps to reduce the prejudice and gives a biasfree mind.