PS270 Lecture 2: Professional Ethics and Social Psychology
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Professional ethics and social psychology: piliavin - walking cane collapses on a subway, zimbardo - abandoned cars, middlemist, knowles, and matter - how long it takes to pee with people around urinator, milgram - shock test. Research methods: correlational and experimental research methods: correlational research method - study of naturally occurring relationships among variables. Disadvantage: causation often ambiguous: experiment research method studies that seek clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more factors (independent variables) while controlling others (holding them constant) Determines causal influence of one variable over the other. Researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions and examines independent and dependent variables. Advantage: can explore cause and effect by controlling variables and by random assignment. Disadvantage: some important variables cannot be studied with experiments. Theory an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis a testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events.
