Social Psychology
This playlist brings together several courses on topics in social psychology, including obedience, conformity, prejudice, helping and help-seeking and the social cure.
What this playlist includes:
83 lectures across 15 courses.
All resources designed and delivered by university academics and researchers.
Courses and Lectures
1. Issues and Debates – Individual Versus Situational Factors
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
1.1. Individual Versus Situational Factors – 09:38
1.2. The Person-Situation Debate – 06:26
1.3. Personality as a Determinant of Behaviour – 08:27
1.4. Social Situations as a Determinant of Behaviour – 09:56
1.5. Debates and Controversies – 08:04
2. Cognition and Development – Behaviourist Learning Theories
Dr Cathal O'Siochru
Liverpool Hope University
Liverpool Hope University
2.1. Learning and Development – 10:17
2.2. Classical Conditioning – 11:42
2.3. Operant Conditioning – 12:55
2.4. Learning by Observation – 10:24
2.5. Self-Efficacy – 11:38
3. Social Influence – Obedience, Compliance and Conformity
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
3.1. Defining Social Influence – 07:04
3.2. Types of Social Influence – 05:15
3.3. Early Research into Social Influence – 10:25
3.4. Individual Factors Affecting Influence – 09:00
3.5. Social Situations Affecting Influence – 11:28
3.6. Key Questions about Social Influence – 11:04
4. Social Influence – Obedience
Dr Stephen Gibson
York St John University
York St John University
4.1. Milgram’s Obedience Experiments – 10:52
4.2. Variations and the Agentic State – 14:51
4.3. Early Criticism and Replication Studies – 12:23
4.4. Recent Criticism: Milgram’s Archive – 10:29
4.5. A New Definition of Obedience: Language and Rhe... – 12:19
5. Social Influence – Conformity
Mr Kevin Silber
Derby University
Derby University
5.1. What is Conformity? – 03:24
5.2. Early Studies on Conformity – 07:20
5.3. Factors Affecting Conformity – 08:06
5.4. Types of Conformity – 06:23
5.5. Explanations for Conformity – 06:40
5.6. The Stanford Prison Experiment – 09:17
6. Social Influence – The Social Cure
Dr Mhairi Bowe
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University
6.1. The Social Identity Approach – 06:22
6.2. Early Research – 05:55
6.3. New Approaches – 07:47
6.4. Practical Application – 05:29
6.5. Social Curses – 06:31
6.6. Summary – 01:36
7. Social Influence – Prejudice
Dr Juliet Wakefield
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University
7.1. What is Prejudice? – 08:48
7.2. Explanations for Prejudice – 06:51
7.3. Classic Study: Sherif’s Robbers Cave Experiment – 08:28
7.4. Ingroup/Outgroup Dynamics – 05:58
7.5. Sexism – 08:02
7.6. The Effects of Prejudice – 07:55
8. Social Influence – Helping and Help-Seeking
Dr Juliet Wakefield
Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University
8.1. Introduction – 08:14
8.2. Helping: Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect – 08:56
8.3. The Social Identity Approach to Helping – 10:15
8.4. Help-Seeking: The Threat to Self-Esteem Model – 07:18
8.5. The Social Identity Approach to Help-Seeking – 08:40
8.6. Conclusion – 03:03
9. Attachment – Psychological Theories
Dr Emily Burdett
Nottingham University
Nottingham University
9.1. John Bowlby: Maternal Deprivation – 07:13
9.2. Animal Studies of Attachment – 09:21
9.3. Mary Ainsworth: The Strange Situation – 10:04
9.4. Romanian Orphan Studies – 11:11
9.5. Early Attachment and Later Relationships – 10:34
9.6. Summary – 02:52
10. Attachment – History, Models and Culture
Prof. Jeremy Holmes
Exeter University
Exeter University
10.1. The History of Attachment Theory – 11:07
10.2. Attachment and Modern Evolutionary Theory – 12:25
10.3. Measuring Attachment – 11:41
10.4. Caregiver Sensitivity – 12:59
10.5. Language and Attachment – 09:02
10.6. Culture and Attachment – 09:52
11. Issues and Debates – Cross Cultural Psychological Research
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
11.1. Understanding Culture – 09:27
11.2. How Cultures Differ – 08:03
11.3. Addressing the Emic Perspective – 08:05
11.4. Clinical and Developmental Psychology – 08:29
11.5. Cognition, Perception and Social Psychology – 08:35
11.6. Debates in Cross Cultural Psychology – 11:44
12. Social Influence – Resistance to Influence
Prof. Gordon Sammut
London School of Economics
London School of Economics
12.1. Conformity and Obedience – 09:03
12.2. Non-Conformity and Disobedience – 08:43
12.3. Dispositional Influences – 11:41
12.4. Situational Circumstances – 09:42
13. Social Influence – Minority Influence
Prof. Gordon Sammut
London School of Economics
London School of Economics
13.1. Minority Influence Versus Individual Influence – 08:13
13.2. A Legitimate Alternative – 09:07
13.3. Processes of Minority Influence – 07:41
13.4. Experimental Evidence – 07:16
13.5. Differentiating Minority and Majority Influence – 07:16
14. Social Influence – Applying Social Psychology Research
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
14.1. Ethics, Obedience and Heroism – 05:58
14.2. Ethics in Social Psychology Research – 08:36
14.3. Doing Social Psychology Research Right – 10:08
14.4. Heroism – 09:42
14.5. Peter Badger – 06:50
15. Social Influence – Factors Affecting Social Influence
Dr Ayoub Bouguettaya
Birmingham University
Birmingham University
15.1. Understanding Social Influence – 08:59
15.2. Milgram's Obedience Research – 11:30
15.3. Gender and Culture – 07:49
15.4. Disobedience – 08:31
15.5. Studying Obedience Yourself – 08:28
15.6. Concluding – 08:04
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