Topic > Self and Social Psychology - 2999

I guess the simplest thing we've learned since we came into this world is to interact with other people. As we grow and develop, we see and interact with different types of people and try to understand them through social psychology. We understand why people behave in a certain way and why some judge others and social psychology has made us understand why we tend to decide with others and rely on their judgment rather than having our own opinion on the matter. Social psychology introduces ourselves and our group or people to whom we belong. We tend to try to understand ourselves and how we are as people, so we try to act and behave accordingly based on who we are and this concept is called self-concept. This is our idea of ​​what we are our understanding of ourselves (Mcleod, 2008). This is made up of our beliefs about ourselves, our attitude and behavior, and our opinion about how we should behave and how we actually behave (Feenstra, 2011). For me, my self-concept is that I'm a worry person and I said that because I always end up telling other people about my worries, so I share them with them. This is very different with my friend who always keeps it taught to herself and always stays on the sidelines. So, aside from our self-concept, we also have what we call our self-schema. The self-schema is how we look at ourselves, so it can be associated with what we liked to do. My self-schema is that I am a gardener because I love working in my garden. Whenever I see something related to gardening, I can easily associate with it because of my personal schema, so my behavior shows how I perceive myself. Self-schema equals self-awareness, so I am aware of myself both publicly and privately. Private self-awareness is… middle of the paper… common among social psychologists, like what happened when someone conducted research called The Tuskegee Study of Untreatment Syphilis in the Negro Male. The patients in this study were not treated with the disease. The reason they were selected for the study is to find out the consequences of syphilis and not to find a cure for it. The research was deemed unethical because patients were at risk by not knowing they were actually suffering from syphilis. They do not know the symptoms, the treatment or the medicine they should take and this shows that they were deprived of the opportunity to heal because this fact was hidden from them. If there was another research to be done regardless of the topic, it may be impossible to obtain participants due to fears that such unethical behavior by researchers could be repeated putting everyone's lives at risk..