Understanding Group Dynamics in Social Research
The Influence of Group Dynamics
Individuals belong to primary and secondary groups (family, workgroups), and their participation is often subject to the group’s norms and values. The group can influence its members’ perspectives, sometimes differing from those outside the group.
Groupality and Individual Behavior
Groupality demonstrates that people are not entirely autonomous. Our actions are influenced by group interactions, even when they appear independent.
The Group in Social Research
Current research
Read MoreBrain Function: Memory, Sleep, Cognition, and Aphasia
The Importance of Forgetting
- Retrieve information/memory: To bring back, to remember information.
- Retrieval of information: The process of getting information back.
- The brain can’t keep holding onto everything; it doesn’t have the capacity to keep every piece of information.
- Dredge up: To ruminate.
- Ruminate: To think carefully for a long time.
- To shut memories out: To avoid thinking about those memories.
- To shut memories down: To avoid thinking but remember later.
- To forget on purpose: To forget things
Psychomotor Development and Perception in Children
Psychomotor Development: Concept and Components
Concept: Evolution of the subject to perform actions and movements, as well as the mental representation and consciousness of them. It includes both external components (action) and internal components (representation).
Body Schema
Elements of the body schema include the mental representation of the body, the possibilities of movement, and spatial constraints.
Laterality
Lateral predominance in executions. Association of movement coordination and progressive
Read MoreUnderstanding Sexism, Prejudice, and Social Bias
Key Concepts in Prejudice and Discrimination
- In-group: A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member.
- Out-group: A social group with which an individual does not identify.
- Cultural Stereotypes: Collective views of social groups.
- Social Categorization: Classifying people into groups based on similar characteristics.
- Primary Social Categories: Close-knit groups, typically small
Enculturation and Ethnocentrism: Understanding Cultural Dynamics
Enculturation and Ethnocentrism
A. Culture as a Collective and Individual Entity
Culture is a collective entity, shared and transferred. However, culture also exists uniquely within each individual, collectively forming what is understood as personality. Enculturation is the process by which individuals acquire patterns of behavior through observation and reinforcement. It should not be confused with acculturation (the process of imposing certain elements from one culture onto another). Enculturation
Read MorePhonetics and Phonology: Key Concepts
Key Concepts in Phonetics and Phonology
1) Phoneme: Trubetzkoy’s set of distinctive features are presented simultaneously in a phonetic complexity of application. For example, the phoneme /b/: consonant, bilabial, occlusive, sonorous.
2) Phonetic Oppositions: Phonetic oppositions are distinguished by a feature and do not change significantly. For example: /b/ bilabial, sound, occlusive (e.g., course) /ɸ/ bilabial, sound, fricative (e.g., it came yesterday) Phonological oppositions distinguish meanings,
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