PSYC 2606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Schizophrenia, Rationality
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Social psychology: study of nature and causes of individual behavior/ cognition in social situations. Focuses on a variety of different social situations that affect common humanity. Determinism is the belief that all events are snapped & governed by forces beyond control of individual. Objective and systematic method of research in scienti c analysis. Goals of research: determine if a variable in uences some form of b: vary the quantity or quality of the variable, see if variables had an impact on b. Independent variable: variable being studies and manipulated by experimenter. Control of independent variable simplify the world & exercise control over behavior. Mundane realism: degree to which experiment resembles real world events. Psychology is the study of college sophomores -(test question) Demand characteristics : cues that reveal the hypothesis under study. Can create a social pressure for subjects to behave or act a certain way. Evaluation apprehension: participants having concern over being observed during a study.
