PSYC 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Positron Emission Tomography, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
30 Aug 2016
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Focus on the individual in a social context. Prejudice: group/class (sociology), therapies for antisocial (clinical psychology), questionnaire (personality: social psychology: manipulate contact between different groups and observe reactions, interact: understand on a societal level, etc. Knew-it-all phenomenon: common sense seems to explain many social psychology findings after the fact: use scientific method to put theories to the test. Birth and infancy of social psychology: 1880s 1920s. First textbooks were by mcdougall (1908), ross (1908), and f. allport (1924). These books established social psychology as a distinct field of study. Adolf hitler"s behaviors had the most dramatic impact on social psychology: examine nature of prejudice, aggression and conformity, millgram"s experiments on obedience and authority. Lewin"s findings on interaction between person and environment, which later became known as interactionist perspective. Constants of human behavior: inherently obedient (milgram) Period of expansion and enthusiasm and a time of crisis and heated debate: strong reactions against lab experiment as the dominant research method.
