PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Group Polarization, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
7 Mar 2017
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What is social psychology: discipline that seeks to understand how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Scientific study of the ways individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations. Focuses on individual: considers interaction between situation and person, examines internal psychological states and observable behaviours, uses scientific methods. Basic and applied research: conflict/peacekeeping, health, courts. Small groups have greater influence than one person, but 4-5 people is not more effective. Looking at own fb page can increase self-esteem since it is often your ideal self. Individuals in better moods are more likely to help other than when in a bad mood. Research methods: theory - set of principles used to explain observed phenomena, simple, complete (accounts for all data) Survey study - participants complete questionnaires: reverse causality, spuriousness. Independent variable manipulation: random assignment, high internal validity means that changes in dependent variable are directly linked to changes in.
