IB Psychology
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Principles Table
SCLOA
Principle
Explanation
Human beings are
social animals and
we have a basic
need to “belong”
This goes hand in hand with
acting a certain why to be
accepted by the norms of the
individuals society. There are
changes behavior and opinion to
identify with the influencing
group
Studies/Research
Asch’s Paradigm Experiment
Social and cultural
environment
affects/influences
behavior
The Social Learning Theory was
1. Albert Bandura – Bobo Doll
proposed by Albert Bandura. In
Experiment
essence, individuals look at
others and inference there
behavior. Their (the role model)
behavior has a affect/influence
on the individual(s).
Humans have a
Social Self
Social Identity Theory proposed
by Henry Tajfel. The individual
has a sense of self of where
he/she stands in society. Via
comparing, categorizing,
identifying oneself.
People’s views on
the world are
resistant to change
Through situational and
Dispositional attributions
individuals have a intellectual
blinders that will always pull on
them. Intuition plays a huge role
here. Our intuition pulls on our
everyday lives without us
knowing.
Henry Tajfel – Intergroup
discrimination Experiment (SIT)
Lee et al. – Audience and Game
show experiment (FAE)
Candy experiment example- 30
kids in a class are asked how
many candies are in a jar.
Everyone’s thought of the number
varies immensely. One student is
called on (the first student) and he
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says “200”. Well now that people
have situationally attributed that
number as reasonable, there is a
larger increase of numbers
around 200.
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