Answers:

Question (a)

Following are the benefits of the social psychological approach in understanding why people behave in a particular way:

Social psychology enriches your understanding of yourself and the people around you. By learning more about how people view others, how they behave in groups, and how attitudes are formed, you can gain a greater appreciation for how social relationships influence individual functioning. This tells why people behave in a certain way. Social psychology focuses on three main areas: social thinking, social influence, and social behavior.

Thus, Social psychology is a scientific study or way of understanding the people mitigating the role of just intuition or guess work. This is important because social psychology not only helps to understand people but also focuses much attention on researching and devising solutions to social challenges due to behavior of these people. For example, social psychologists might study the nature of bullying in public schools and devise programs to reduce or eliminate those negative behaviors.

Question (b)

Construal is defined as the way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the world around them so that they can make sense of the world and determine their own actions and judgements.

People can construe the same situation in following two different ways:

(1)By using the facts to reach any conclusion for a given situation

(2)Ignoring the facts, being emotional and then trying to guessing or understanding a situation.