Name of the student: Avinash Mandal

Subject: Advanced Social Psychology

Submitting to: Seema Mam 1
Semester: 1

Topic- Biological and Evolutionary perspective

 Introduction : 2

• Social Psychology is the scientific study of the experience and behaviour of

individuals in relation to other individuals group and culture.
•  Social psychology theories about the causes factor behind a particular
behaviour phenomenon, this can be action and characteristic of others basic
cognitive process
• It can be memory, reasoning, believe, ideal judgement about others, ecological
variables, direct and indirect influences of the physical environment.
Social psychology in a new Millennium : 3

• The subject matter of social psychology goes on changing as the year passes by.
• Due to the tremendous changes happening, the present a human being are well advanced
in every sphere the speedy growth from in every areas of human life social psychology
is find to incorporate the latest development into the subject matter.
• This has led to the changing and formulating of new perspective in the study of social
psychology.
• Mainly cognitive perspective application perspective multicultural perspective and
evolutionary perspective
Biological perspective : 4

•This field of psychology is often referred as biopsychology psysociology.

•Charles drawing first introduced the idea that evolution and genetics plays a
role in human behaviour.
•Consider an issue like aggression, the psychoanalytic perspective might view
aggression as the result of childhood experiences and unconscious urges.
•The behavioral perspective considers how the behaviour was shaped by
Association reinforcement and punishment.
Biological perspective main topic areas : 5

1. Analysing how trauma to brain influences behaviour.

2. Assessing differences similarities in twins to determine which characters are
tied to Genetics and which are linked to environmental influences.
3. Exploring how genetic factor influences such thing as aggression.
4. Investigating how detective brain diseases impact and how People react.
5. Studying how Genetics and brain damage are linked to mental disorders
Evolutionary perspective : 6

• Is social behaviour influenced by biological processes and by genetic factors?

• Many social psychologists today believe that our preferences behaviour as
emotional reactions and cognitive abilities are affected to some extent by our
biological inheritance(Buss 1990, Nisbett 1990) .
• Social Biology is a discipline that is based on the thoughts that many aspects of the
social behaviours are the result of evolutionary processes in which patterns of
behaviour that contribute to production are strengthened and spread throughout a
population.
• Evolutionary social perspective suggest that social tendencies towards behaviour
that contribute to reproduction are strenthened and spread throughout a population.
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• These are the most adaptive from the point of view of Survival and increase in
strength over time within a given population.
• But it is also recognised that such tendencies change in response to
environmental and social conditions.
• They can even be altered by cognitive processes, but some of the basic
assumption of psychologists are questioned
• behaviour can be changed.
Conclusion : 8

• Current social psychology is characterized by the research and applications in

various subjects of everyday life. From personal health, environment to law
everything comes within its ken.
• Its importance is added by the fact that all the parts and problems of human life
are based on the human thinking and attitudes, understanding them better will
lead to a better socially managed life whether the behaviour is concerned with
individuals small groups are the problems knowing the basic nature of human
will give our techniques are far better ground for utilisation.
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• Multicultural perspective, cognitive perspective, Biological perspective and

evolutionart perspective.
• Research ethics made it mandatory to respect the individuality and privacy of the
research participants there should be no physical and mental harm to those
thinking part in the research all social psychological researches should follow
APA a guide lines.
 References: 10

• Andreyva, Galina(1990) social psychology.

• Baron, R. A and Byrne D(1997), social psychology 8th edition, Boston MA: Allyn & Baco.n
• https://www.brainy.in
• https://www.verywellmind.com