Social approach

What you'll learn

• Introduce the social approach to psychology and its main assumptions.
• Explore three core studies: Milgram (obedience), Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritans), and Yamamoto et al. (chimpanzee helping).
• Understand the background, methods, findings, and conclusions of each core study.
• Analyze how research methods are used within the social approach.
• Apply issues and debates to the concepts considered in the social approach.
• Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the research methods used in the core studies.
• Discuss the application of psychology to everyday life based on the core studies.
• Compare individual and situational explanations for behaviour.

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