There are many different approaches in psychology that seek to explain behavior through various perspectives, but each approach differs in explaining the cause or causes of behaviors in a person or group. For example, Freud's psychoanalytic approach claims that human behavior is the cause of a person's unconscious thoughts, conflicts between internal drives and childhood experiences, while on the other hand, the behaviorist approach claims that all human behaviors are learned through the process of operant and classical conditioning or in other words, behavior arises as a response to conditioning. The social psychological approach holds that influences from other people can influence human behavior. Many approaches in psychology focus on the internal causes of a person's behavior, but the social psychological approach focuses on both a person's internal characteristics and external influences such as our social environment to understand the causes of human behavior. Social psychology is inspired by some of the principles of the behaviorist approach according to which people learn to behave in response to their environment, either by stimulus-response association or as a result of reinforcement. For the purposes of this essay, I will discuss the social psychological approach in psychology by drawing on some of the types of questions that social psychologists try to answer. For generations the field of psychology has debated whether an individual's behavior is the result of his personality or his social conditions. context (i.e. nature vs. nurture) and in attempting to answer these types of questions, social psychologists have focused their studies on understanding the numerous factors and conditions that shape human behavior in social context, factors such as; how humans develop a… paper medium… tasks compared to those without the presence of others (Crisp & Turner 2010). Further social psychology studies and experiments have shown how certain conditions and factors such as since attitude and social influences can change or influence human behavior, for example, attitude studies have shown that we are not born with an attitude but it is something that humans learn through social learning with others and more importantly for social psychologists, studies also reveal that attitudes can serve as different functions for the individual and how attitude significantly influences behaviors of people, Bandura's (1977) social learning theory supports the idea that one of the ways we learn behavior is through the process of observational learning which in turn shows that attitude is learned through the process of interaction social human (Mcleod, 2013; Baron & Byrne 2004).