PSY220H1 Lecture 2: PSY220 Lecture 2 Notes

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY220H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

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Part 1: research methods and ethical issues in social psychology. Jan. 12, 2017: the scientific study of the effects of social and cognitive processes on the way individuals perceive, influence, and relate to others, perceive things that relate to social thinking, self-perception; forming impressions of others. Influence i. e. conformity, persuasion: relate to others, social relations development of friendships, romantic behaviours, these are all sections of social psychology that interact with one another. Difference between social psychology and sociology: social psychology is emphasized on the individual, sociology is focused on the group in a social context, social psychologists, as opposed to sociologists, conduct more experimental type research. Is(cid:374)"t the research just telling us stuff we already know: we t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) ha(cid:448)e a (cid:862)go-to(cid:863) e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) for al(cid:373)ost e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g, (cid:271)ut reall(cid:455) a(cid:374) understanding for absolutely nothing, therefore, we cannot just rely on common sense. Experimental vs. nonexperimental methods: three types of research, descriptive, correlational, experimental, naturalistic and participant observation, field studies.