Learning Outcomes:
On satisfactory completion of this assessment students are expected to have provided evidence of the following:
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the origins and nature of social psychological questions, theories and perspectives.
• Discuss the origins and triggers of the ‘crisis’ in social psychology that is said to have occurred in the late 1960s from historical, social and academic perspectives.
• Further discuss the nature of the ‘crisis’ and its ‘resolution’, incorporating salient theories, perspectives and personalities.
• Discuss whether the term ‘crisis’ is an appropriate description of events in social psychology in the late 1960s.
• Apply comparative and evaluative skills to key concepts, approaches and practices in Experimental Social Psychology and Critical Social Psychology.
• Identify and discuss theoretical and methodological developments and applications of contemporary social psychology in general and European Social Psychology in particular.