What Are the Major Perspectives in Social Psychology?

Answer: Sociocultural Perspective

•Stresses the importance of social norms and culture.

•Proposes that children learn behavior through problem-solving interactions with other children and adults. Through these interactions, they learn the values and norms of their society. Evolutionary Perspective

•Argues that social behaviors developed through genetics and inheritance.

•Emphasizes the role of biology and gene transmission across generations to explain current behavior. Social Learning Perspective

•Stresses the importance of unique experiences in family, school, community, etc.

•According to this viewpoint, we learn behaviors through observing and mimicking the behavior of others.