PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gestalt Psychology, Social Neuroscience, Evolutionary Psychology
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Whether the participant was competitive or cooperative did not matter! Strong social norms led participants to construe the situation in the same way. The way in which people perceive, comprehend, and interpret the social world. Internal forces like personal attitudes and dispositions matter! Internal factors such as beliefs, values, personality traits or abilities that guide a. Nearly 800 members died after being commanded by their leader to drink a kool-aid a. Genetic factors play an important role in social behaviour. A relatively new branch of psychology that seeks to investigate the potential role o. Every psychological event is also a biological event. An integration of biological and social perspectives that explores the neural and. Yields consistent information over time and across observers. Test-retest (temporal stability), inter-rater, internal consistency (e. g. cronbach . Content validity (face validity), concurrent validity (convergent validity, discrim validity. A form of observational method, whereby the researcher examines the accumulated docum magazines, and newspapers)