PSYC 2P30 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Representativeness Heuristic, Fidel Castro, Eye Contact
5 Oct 2016
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A branch of psychology that scientifically studies how people think, behave and are influence by those around them. Construal a term use by social psychologist to describe how humans interpret their social environment. Psych 2p30 : fundamentals of social psychology: need to feel good about ourselves self esteem, need to be right social cognition. Must include all necessary details and connection. Scientific method a process whereby psychologist use to study. Theory a set of ideas that are use to explain a phenomenon. Hypotheses a statement about the relationship of two variables, and can be tested to conclude if its false/true. Positive able to record how people behave in natural settings. Negatives does not explain causes of behaviour: correlation. Determined relationship of two variable and how strong the relationship is. 3rd variable/spurious correlation cant determined which variable causes which. Uses random samplings and representative samples of a group. Random sampling use when researches want to know something about a particular population.
