1. Explain what is meant by the individualist approach to psychology.
2. Explain what is meant by the socio-centered approach to psychology.
3. Explain the continuum of behaviour/identity of Tajfel (1978).
4. Why are group theories potentially better than individual centred ones?
5. Name three big individualist theories?
6. Name three big social group theories?
7. What is the background information on Freud's social group theory?
8. What is the definition of a group according to Freud?
9. Describe the difference between an individual and level identification?
10. How do groups form according to Freud?
11. Describe the ambivalence and displacement in Freud's social group theory?
12. Describe in detail the Frustration-Aggression Hypotheses by Dollard et Al (1939)
13. What are some of the criticisms of the Frustration-Aggression hypotheses?
14. What are the methodological issues that the Social Identity Theory tries to solve and how
does it attempt to do that?
15. What are minimal group studies and how was it done in this case?
16. What was the test and result of the tests in the study?
17. What concepts did these finding establish?
18. What is social categorization?
19. What process does social categorization form a part of?
20. What is categorical differentiation of in/out group based on according to Tajfel (78/81)?
21. Besides being at the centre of stereotype what else do we gain through differentiation?
22. What does self-concept consists of?
23. What is social identity and why is it so crucial?
24. What is social comparison in detail?
25. Who developed the Realistic Conflict theory and what an interesting fact about it?
26. What was different about the RCT?
27. Describe the study done and the first two stages?
28. What were the two hypotheses after stage 2?
29. What happened in stage 3 and 4?
30. What were the results of the study?
31. What was the final analysis written formally?
32. How does RCT suggest that we bring harmony to different groups?
33. What is the major argument of the relative deprivation theory?
34. What is the fundamental component of RDT?
35. What question does RDT bring up?
36. How does Davis answer the question that the previous question brings up?
37. What are the questions and limitations of the RDT
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