Psych Vivas · Foundations — social psychology
Social psychology and group dynamics — structured clinical viva
Social psychology and group dynamics — structured clinical viva
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FRANZCPMRCPsychABPNMD-DNB
Prompt
You are the psychiatry registrar. The consultant asks you to teach social psychology for MRCPsych/FRANZCP using: (1) a family high-EE vignette after psychosis discharge; (2) a junior who publicly agrees with an unsafe senior plan; (3) a patient who delayed care due to stigma. Cover definitions (attribution, dissonance, conformity, obedience, bystander, social identity, groupthink/polarisation, stigma types), EE evidence, anti-stigma evidence, and ethics of classic experiments.
Opening definitions (90 seconds)
Social psychology: influence of actual, imagined, or implied others on thought, feeling, and behaviour. Name the toolkit: attribution and FAE; dissonance/forced compliance; conformity (normative vs informational); obedience; bystander diffusion; social identity; groupthink and polarisation; stigma types.[4][5][3]
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