Is there a 'football hooligan' in us all?

Man is a social animal, and as such, it is very important to understand the psychology of how we interact with each other, or act as a group rather than as an individual. By understanding the "natural" social needs of a person, you can develop an increased sensitivity to other people, and better identify and assist people with attending to deficiencies in their social interactions.

• To determine how physical characteristics and non-verbal behaviour affect our formation of impressions of others, and how that information is processed;

• To understand the sociological perspective of the self and how we relate to others;

•   To discuss attribution theory, the internal and external causes, and its role in self-perception and the perception of others;

• To understand the emergence of attitudes, changes in attitude, and the effect of attitudes upon behaviour and use as predictors of behaviour;

• To discuss the emergence of prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination from the perspective of social psychology and attitudes;

• To understand the influence of physicality, similarity, familiarity and proximity on interpersonal relationships;

• To understand helping behaviour through the influences of conformity, compliance, obedience and diffusion of responsibility;

• To define social psychological theories of aggression and to apply those theories;

• To understand the nature of group behaviour and to demonstrate awareness of group cognition;

• To understand the effect of culture on behaviour of individuals and groups.

• Define 'social cognition';

• Determine the possible impression a jury might have of defendants and the social basis of those impressions;

• List the three general biases that may affect the jury's "attributions and explanations" and briefly describe each one;

• Different types of schema;

• Explain why people are motivated to justify their own actions belief and feelings;

• Explain 'cognitive dissonance';

•   Explain how can the desire for self-consistency influences our self-perception;

• Determine the purposes served by dissonance -reducing behaviour;

• Identify factors that form self-concept;

• Describe attribution theory;

•   Describe how discounting principles relate to our perception of others;

• Identify the fundamental attribution error;

• Discuss how we use attribution to protect our self esteem;

• Discuss how consistency, consensus and distinctiveness help to form our explanations of another person's behaviour;

• Explain how attitudes develop;

• Discuss how attitudes affect behaviour;

• Explain what makes people prejudiced;

•   Explain how physicality influences our behaviour;