SOCPSY 3Y03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Royal Institute Of Technology, Intersubjectivity, Scientific Method
17 Jan 2018
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Seeks to understand how people think about, feel about, relate to, and influence one another. Interaction and intersubjectivity (mutual engagement and participation between individuals) Can be considered either/both depending on the approach taken. Employs the scientific method - empirical tests, ideas supported/refuted, replicable. Skepticism - refusing to believe that conclusions are true without rigorous verification. Open-mindedness - except findings even if they"re inconsistent with your beliefs/theory. Ethics - performing ethical behaviour when doing research. Description: identifying details and nature of phenomenons. Prediction: factors systematically related to the phenomenon of interest. Determining causality: determining what changes in one factor produce changes in another. Explanation: establishing why a phenomenon or relationship occurs. Intergroup attitudes: attitudes towards people in a group of which one is not a part of. Formation through socialization; people are taught acceptable attitudes. Formation through in/out group bias, in-group members relate to in-group favourable, and out-group unfavourably. Draws on social psychology theories, methods and research evidence to contribute to:
