Exercise 6. Make word combinations. Use them in the sentences of your own.
1) conduct
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a) contact
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2) observable
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b) influence
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3) cognitive
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c) research
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4) major
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d) agencies
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5) government
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e) behaviour
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6) social
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f) dissonance
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Exercise 6. Form the following groups of derivatives. Make four sentences of your own using the words from the table.
Noun
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Verb
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Adjective
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conflict
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believe
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achieved
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measure
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claim
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owed
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competition
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failure
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observable
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research
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perception
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Exercise 7. Insert the necessary preposition.
1. Social psychologists also use statistics ___ government agencies.
2. Some social psychologists work ___ businesses.
3. The first textbooks ___ social psychology were published in the early
1900’s.
4. Modern social psychology owes much ___ the behavioural psychologists
of the 1930’s, who called ___ the scientific study ___ observable behaviour.
5. People’s ideas about themselves are developed ___ social contact.
6. Both Mead and Lewin claimed that behaviour depends primarily ___ how
people interpret the social world.
Exercise 8. Skim the text for getting the idea of major research topics in social
psychology and the aspects they study.
Areas of Research
Social psychology today is a diverse discipline encompassing a broad range
of research topics. They are processes of social influence, social perception, and
interpersonal behaviour.
Processes of Social Influence. In this area, social psychologists study such
aspects of people’s behaviour as conformity, obedience, and attitudes and
persuasion. Although born helpless, human infants are equipped at birth with
reflexes that orient them toward people. They are responsive to faces, turn their head toward voices, and mimic certain facial gestures on cue. It seems
that human beings are inherently social animals. All over the world, people
experience joy when they form new social attachments and react with loneliness
and despair when these bonds are broken - as when separated from a loved one
by distance, divorce, or death. Research shows that people who have a network
of family and friends are happier and healthier and live longer than those who
are more isolated. People need people, that is why social situations can have such
a profound effect on our thoughts, feelings, and behaviour.
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