PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Naturalistic Observation, Social Rejection, Observer-Expectancy Effect
30 Sep 2020
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Ppl interact with one another to achieve some goal or satisfy some inner motivation: social behavior represents a continual interaction between person and situation. Motivations inside each of us interact with events in outside situations we encounter social behavior is goal-oriented. 5 fundamental motives ultimate functions of our social behavior. Social isolations taps into same neural mechanisms as physical pain. Without their friends, our ancestors wouldn"t have survived. Social rejection may trigger primitive physiological emergency reaction. To defend ourselves and those we value. Promotes survival but also leads to escalating violence and racism. Hypothesis: researcher"s prediction about what he or she will find. Descriptive methods: procedure for measuring or recording behaviors, thoughts, and feelings in their natural state (naturalistic observations, case studies, archival studies, surveys, and psychological tests). Experimental method: procedure for uncovering causal processes by systematically manipulating some aspect of situation. Some behaviors they want to study are rare. Biased expectations: hypothesis may lead researcher to search for.
