PSYCH 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ice Cream
8 Dec 2015
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The scientific study of how people"s affect, behaviors, and. Very broad range of topics cognitions are influenced by the presence of at least once other person: abc"s of psychology, conformity, persuasion, group behavior, prejudice, sexuality, aggression. Social psychology is not just common sense don"t be fooled! Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen albert einstein. In science, fact" can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent. stephen jay. Strictly speaking, no hypothesis or theory can ever be proven . Methodologies used: how are two (or more) variables related, surveys. E. g. , personality correlated with behaviour: pre-existing data. E. g. , cloud cover and amount of rain. The zero correlation back to the drawing board. Done in a lab under controlled conditions: cover stories, confederates. Independent variable (iv) is manipulated by the experimenter. Dependent variable (dv) is measured by the experimenter. Iv and dv are carefully defined: operationalization.
