PSYC 215- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 80 pages long!)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Jacqueline L.Human

Document Summary

Value of social psychology research: scientists want to make a difference and help shed some insight into how and why we function - implications important to document research social psychology findings are often unpredictable and hence not very straightforward. Overconfident about whether or not we knew something after we learn the outcome e. g. yeah i knew that . [study] happy money- elizabeth dunn & michael norton. Theory: help make sense of findings, use a theory they agree or disagree with and generate hypothesis to go ahead and test, theoretic reasoning to back up a hypothesis. Theory generates a hypothesis to conduct a study and results form a new theory. Archival: using second-hand, existing data, becoming quickly available, e. g. google trends, able to get lots more data and look at it more closely and for longer and analyse it better. Surveys: asking questions, surveys record beliefs not actual behaviour.