PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: External Validity, Statistical Significance, Dependent And Independent Variables
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1: what is social psychology, study of social processes, how the presence of others affects the way we think, feel bad behave, social situations can be real or imagined. If they"re in our head or in the real behaviour: the goal is explaining and predicting behaviour. Nazi german -> were nazi soldiers somehow unusual, or were most of them normal people who found themselves in unusual situations: milgram"s study of obedience : Set-up experiment described as a study of learning . Participants instructor to shock another participant for any wrong answers. The other person is a confederate who never receives any shock. Shocks increased with each wrong answer 15 volts to 450 volts. The confederate begins to scream and demand that the experiment end but the experimenter instructs the participant to continue with the experiment. 62. 5 percent of experimenters completed the experiment: worked the same for all people regardless of gender, race,
