PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Ego Depletion

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Fulmer

Document Summary

Theories allow you to account for why a behavior is occurring. Versus phenomenological research which demonstrates only that it does occur (we need to know why) Example: control group wrote about their daily lives but experimental group wrote about trauma. Study showed that those who wrote about trauma were significantly more healthy. Study was rejected a lot, because it was purely phenomenological and only demonstrated a phenomenon. Inductive: specific to general (tends to be more common) Someone goes from a very specific example of human behavior that they think about and think about why it occurs, and from there, develop a general explanation that describes human behavior in general. Someone realized that 36 people had watched an attack from high above and didn"t call the police. Social psychologists start to think about this very specific murder. When they interviewed the witnesses, they realized that many of the witnesses noticed other people were watching and figured they would call the police.