SOCPSY 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Dissonance, Transformational Leadership, Physical Attractiveness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2YY3
• Professor: Kathleen Steeves

Document Summary

Interested in how social and psychological processes operate in a. Group : any interaction involving more than one person. Groups are often formed to aid in the completion of tasks. For our purposes groups are any casual organization also constitute what would be a group. Groups are sets of people that are bound to each other in a way, family, roomates, sorority, sports team. Even two people at a party talking is a group, they are bound to each other for a reason. In depth examination of a single or few select groups. May talk to participants and group members to learn about the structure, can do a survey or mixed methods. Control groups, experimental groups: advantages, researchers can manipulate and control environment. Canada is like a university student: non-experimental studies, historical, qualitative or observational studies. Larger than case studies: less strong on causation because it"s not experimental.