ASSIGNMENT NO.

1
BS PSYCHOLOGY
5th SMESTER
Submitted by: Iqra Fatima
Roll No. 21017111-050
Course Code: 302
Submitted To: Mam Saba Saleem
 Table of Content
⮚ Introduction
⮚ Definition
⮚ Scope of Social Psychology
● Socialization of Child
● Social Motivation
● Attitude and Measurement
● Social Learning
● Culture and Personality
● Language and Communication
● Group Structure
● Public Opinion
● Social Change
● Prejudice , Stereotype
● Altruism, Aggression, Cooperation and Competition
● Application of social Psychology in Education , business, Military and
national Affairs
● International relations and industrial conflict
 Scope Of Social Psychology

● Introduction:
Social psychology analyses the nature and relation of man to
society. It is the study of the individuals in social situation. This social
situation can be person to person interaction, person to group
interaction, or a group related to another.

● Definition:
“ Social psychology is a discipline that attempts to
understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behaviors of an
individual are influenced by the actual , imagined or implied presence
of others.
The scope of social psychology or the application of social psychology
are following.

● Socialization of Child :
Socialization is the process by which children are
prepared to become successful members of society. Social interaction
helps children to start to develop their senses of self , and also to learn
what others expect from them
Example:
For example the preschool children or kindergarten children
are learned from their environment like they learned from different
 activities in their school are performed “ how to welcome anyone in
their class room or how behave with their class fellows or teacher”.

● Social Motivation:
Social motivation refers to the human need to interact with
other humans and to accepted by them. These interactions are
considered to be social behaviors that address, either directly or
indirectly ,other people with the purpose of soliciting a response.
Example:
If a child is grown up in a healthy environment and is having a
psychologically fit company. If his fellows are motivated and active in
their tasks, he tends to be more motivated.

● Attitude and Measurement

` An attitude is a set of beliefs that a person
holds in relation to an attitude object, where an attitude object is a
person, thing, event or issue. The person influenced by other persons.
Example:
If any person visit a place and the experience does not go well,
he will develop negative attitude towards that place and criteria of
measurement for that place will become strict. He will avoid visiting
that place again.

● Social Learning:
The social behavior is learned by observing and
imitating the behavior of others. Individuals beliefs based on observing
others.
Example:
 If a child learning to tie his shoelaces must pay close attention to
the finger movement of model. Next time the learner must remember
what the model did by committing the lace tying movements in
memory.

● Culture and Personality:

The study, how personality is influenced by culture.
Every province or country has its own different culture , and the people
adopt dresses, laws, architectural style and social standards according
to their culture. A person’s personality is in accordance with his culture.
Example:
For example, a person will collectivist culture will prefer to be
surrounded by people and tends to be more extrovert than a person
living in individualistic culture.

● Language and Communication:

Language and Communication is a big part of daily
life, we communicate through language and communications build our
relationships. People feel more comfortable and inclined towards the
people having same language and good communication skills.
Example:
For example , a person will develop good understand will a
person with the same language as him. Because language will create
communication and communication will build their relationship.

● Group Structure:

It is defined as the layout of a group. It is a combination

of a group roles, norms, conformity, work place behavior and status.
 The different roles a person plays as a part of the group. Groups are
also influenced by size and the degree of group.

Example:

For example, a school have a complete group structure , the

school is run by members of this group. The principle, administration
team, school staff like teachers and maids etc. Every member of group
is playing an important role.

● Public Opinion:
It is the collective opinion on the specific topic or voting
intention relevant to a society.
Example:
Public opinion tends to have a greater influence on
government at the local level than at the state or national levels. The
other example is that the selection of the prime minister of any country
is also depends on votes of the public.

● Social Change:
Social change refers to the ways in which a society
develops over time to replace beliefs, attitude, and behavior with the
new norms and expectations.
Example:
Social change often occurs when individuals decide to work
towards a common goal. They take note of what’s destructive or
inefficient in society and take the steps necessary to change it.
Most activists can point to a specific movement or person from the past
 that inspires them. Social change empowers citizens, proving that
passion and hard work pays off even when there’s significant resistan.

● Prejudice , Stereotype:
Prejudice and stereotype are biases that work together
to create and maintain social inequality. Prejudice refers to the attitude
and feelings whether positive or negative (usually negative) that people
have about members of other group. While stereotype have been
traditionally defined as specific beliefs about group. We make our
concepts and social images about different social groups by learning or
observing it from our surroundings or peers.

Example:
For example, if a person’s peer considers a group of people or
cast of people unreliable, he will also be less trusting towards that
group of people. The other example is that if a country spreads bad
prejudice against another country. Like Indian media shows the
Pakistanis as terrorists.

● Altruism, Aggression, Cooperation and Competition :

It is that attempts to
explain the presence of cooperative behaviors like helping and sharing
in organisms that don’t have a direct benefit to the organism
performing the behavior. In social psychology aggression defined as
behavior that is intended to harm another individual who does not wish
to be harmed.
Example:
 The best example of these phenomena is that the parents fulfill
the every need of their children. They do not want anything in return
from them.

● International relation and Industrial conflict:

It shows how one country is
being influenced by another. It can be trade, culture or place of
recreation. Some countries have oil reserves so they can trade with
other countries and it become beneficial.
Example:
For example , Pakistan has salt result, it can help it to trade with
other countries and establish good relations with them

● Application of Social Psychology in Education, business, military and

National Affairs :
Social psychology is also important in education ,
like it helps teachers in improving their teaching skills according to the
psyche of different level or ages of students so they can learn
effectively. It also plays the important role in business; we can
understand the behavior of employees, customers and business
partners. Social psychology also applied in National affairs like the
combination of circumstances applying within a society or group at a
particular time.
Example:
The student is influenced by his surroundings and improve his
skills. The business man can learned from their partners , for example a
person can learn how to sale his product in different way or how he can
more attractive his product.

Conclusion
The science of social psychology aims to understand human
social behavior and cognition, emotions and motivations related to it. It
focus on the aspects of social problems that can be improved through
interventions. They examine which factors influence a particular
behavior and investigate which techniques are appropriate and
available.