PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Internal Validity, Demand Characteristics

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO241
• Professor: Jamin Blotter

Document Summary

The scientific study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social context. Common sense seems to explain many social psychological findings after the fact. Can be misleading to make things seem more simplistic. Bicyclists went faster when around others and created an. Others performed more poorly when in the presence of. Spurred research on obedience, violence, prejudice, and experiment to test. Reemergence if interest in integrating hot and cold . Participants disclose their thoughts, feelings, desires, or actions. Affected by the wayin which questions are asked. Can be inaccurate because memories for past thoughts or suspect. Bogus pipeline: hook participants up to a lie-detector . Multiple reporters and see if they come to the same. Self-report: said they do not treat men and women differently (behaviour shown differently) How far they will sit next to the person. Goal is to describe people and their thoughts, feelings, and behaviours.