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1. How does social psychology compare to personality psychology and sociology?

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Personality psychologists study qualities of the individual that might make a person shy, conventional, rebellious, and willing to wear a turquoise wig in public or a yellow shirt in a sea of blue. Social psychologists study the powerful role of social influence on how all of us behave.

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what is behaviorism?

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the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that some mental conditions are best treated by altering behavior patterns.

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what is gestalt psychology?

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a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole. Gestalt psychology suggests that humans don't focus on separate components but instead tend to perceive objects as elements of more complex systems

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what is naive realism?

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the tendency to believe our perception of the world reflects it exactly as it is, unbiased and unfiltered.