IPLUSO 99

Social Psychology

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  This Curricular Unit sets social psychology as a scientific discipline that seeks to understand the behavior of human beings within their social environment, at the levels of intra-individual and inter-individual analysis. By considering the interaction with other people as the focus of analysis, it also allows understanding how Psychology relates to other social sciences such as Anthropology and Sociology, bringing a unique perspective of understanding the psychological processes that mediate the person-context relationship.
• ProgramaProgramme

  1. Introduction to Social Psychology:    1.1 Emergence of Social Psychology as a scientific discipline    1.2 Person-social environment relationship: Fundamental principles 2. Social Influence and Persuasion     2.1 Social Influence Processes        2.1.1 Standardization        2.1.2 Conformism        2.1.3 Obedience        2.1.4 Innovation 3. Attitudes    3.1 Formation, structure and functions of attitudes    3.2 Attitudes, values ¿¿and attitude-behavior inconsistency    3.3 Measures of attitudes    3.4 Attitude change, persuasion and heuristics 4. Impression formation    4.1 Impression formation approaches    4.2 Implicit Personality Theories    4.3 Causal attribution 5. Aggression and prosocial behavior    5.1 Aggression: Instinct Theories and Bandura's Social Learning Theory    5.2 Prosocial behavior: Altruism and selfishness
• ObjectivosObjectives

  This CU aims to increase understanding of psychological processes that explain the relationship between individuals and their social environment, grounded on theoretical approaches, research methods and techniques of Social Psychology as a scientific discipline. At the end of the semester, students are expected to have acquired the following competencies: LO1 - Know how to identify the main historical milestones in the emergence and autonomy of Social Psychology as a scientific discipline. LO2 - Know how to identify and describe the main theoretical and methodological models and approaches of Social Psychology. LO3 - Know how to identify and understand the different psychological processes that occur within and between levels of explanatory analysis, of the relationship between individuals and their social environment. LO4 - Apply the theoretical models and scientific knowledge acquired by Social Psychology, in the explanation of phenomena and individual behaviour in a social environment.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Cerclé, A., Somat., & Serpa, M. T. (2023). Manual de psicologia social. Gaspar, R., & Garrido, M. V. (2016). Cognição Social. In Miguel Pereira Lopes, Patrícia Jardim da Palma & Albino Lopes (Eds.), Fundamentos de Psicologia (pp.193-240). Lisboa: MGM Edições. Rodrigues, A., Assmar, E. M. L., & Jablonski, B. (2022). Psicologia Social, Editora Vozes. Smith, E.R., & Mackie, D.M. (2014). Social Psychology (4th ed.). New York: Worth Publishers. Vala, J., & Monteiro, M.B. (2017). Psicologia Social (10ª ed.). Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.    
• MetodologiaMethodology

  The methodologies used are: content exposure completed with discussion in class; viewing and analysis of excerpts from films and documentaries; analysis of scientific articles; tutorial support.   
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  6
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não