PSYB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thought Suppression, Representativeness Heuristic, Prototype Theory
4 Jun 2013
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Social psychology: study in which peoples thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people they focus on the individual in a social situation (insert history of social psychology) Can never conclude a causation, but can tell us the relationship (ex. What is the relation between children"s aggression & how much violent tv they watch?) Correlation coefficient: how well you can predict outcome of one variable based on another (ex. How well you can predict people"s weight from their height) *problem with correlation: can never say a causes b: hypothetico/deductive/ lab experimental method. *example: more bystanders in an emergency causes less people to react. P-value: # of how likely it is that the results are by chance and not the iv; result causal if the probability of results being chance is less than 5 in 100. Internal validity: ensuring nothing other than the iv can affect the dv.
