PSY 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Suicide, Ethnography, Internal Validity
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Chapter 1: what is social psychology: general definition, social psychology: the scientific study of how people"s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people. Community game: why do we do this, the situation is hard to see, we like predictability and consistency (environment is fluid and changes consistently, we like to blame others. Two fundamental axioms of social psychology: individuals socially construct or construe their own reality, social influence manifests itself in every aspect of social life, even when alone. Not be likely to: persuade them by offering useful info, scare them, or threaten them with punishments. Two approaches to research design: the correlational approach, looks for a relationship or link between variables, the experimental approach. Chapter 2 quiz: megan reads a research study which shows that children who see a lot of violence on television are more likely to be aggressive on the playground.
