Comprehension check

Ex. 3. Which of the following is the main idea of the text:

1. The study of people's perception of themselves and others.

2. Social psychologist investigate and interpret the social world.

3. The study of the psychological basis of people's relationships with one another.

Ex. 4. Are these statements true or false:

1. Social psychologist don't put any theories; they test the theories of other fields of psychology.

2. People become uneasy when they learn new information that conflicts with what they already believe.

3. Social psychologists never work for government agencies and business organizations.

4. No book was published on social psychology.

5. Social psychology studies people's relationships with nature and other animals.

6. Social psychologists investigate such processes as communication, cooperation, competition, decision making.

Ex. 5. Read the text and write a question to each of the following answers:

1. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: It studies the psychological basis of people's relationships with one another.

2. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: To demonstrate Festinger's theory.

3. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: Through experiments.

4. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: At colleges and universities.

5. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: The precise measurement of people's actions.

6. Question: __________________________________________?

Answer: To support their theories.

Ex. 6. Complete the sentences according to the text:

1. People who believe they are failures often … success, even when they can easily achieve it.

2. Social psychologists also use other sources of information, including …, recorded observations of behaviour, and statistics from government agencies.

3. Many … teach and conduct research at colleges and universities.

4. Modern social psychologist … much to the behavioral psychologists of the 1930's.

5. Mead, an American psychologist and philosopher, … that people's ideas about themselves are developed through social contact.

Language work

Ex. 7. Choose the synonymes and antonyms from the box to the highlighted words:

comfortable, corroborate, disturbed, disaster, refute, success, assert, deny, confrontation, join forces

1. L. Festinger, the American social psychologist, developed the theory that people become uneasy when they learn new information, that conflicts with what they already believe.

2. Like other scientists, social psychologists, collect evidence to support their theories.

3. Success would conflict with people's belief in themselves as failures.

4. Both mead and Lewin claimed that behaviour depends primarily on how people interpret the social word.

5. Social psychologists investigate cooperation.

Ex. 8. Use the words given in capitals at the end of each line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line:

1. Social psychologists investigate ______	communicate
2. Then they ______ evidence to support their theories.	collection
3. Social psychologists use different sources of ______.	to inform
4. Many social psychologists ______ and conduct research at colleges and universities.	teacher
5. Modern social psychology owes much to the ______ psychologists of the 1930's.	behaviour

Ex. 9. Fill in the gaps with the appropriate prepositions:

1. People's ideas about themselves are developed … social contract.

2. Social psychologists also use statistics … government agencies.

3. The first textbooks … social psychology were published in the early 1900's.

4. Both mead and Lewin claimed that behaviour depends primarily … how people interpret the social world.

5. Modern social psychology owes much … the behavioral psychologists of the 1930's, who called … the scientific study … observable behaviour.