[PSYCH 2C03] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 91 pages long Study Guide!

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The scientific study of how peoples affect, behaviors and cognitions are influenced by the presence of at least one person. Social psychology is not common sense- is one of those fields, the finding sounds just as reasonable as when you here its opposite. Soldiers from rural backgrounds were in better spirits than those from urban backgrounds. All findings provided were actually opposite of what was actually found by scientist. Albert einstein- common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen- beware of common sense. Hypothesis and predictions- very specific ideas and proposals that you wanna go ahead and test. If what you test comes out to be true- you continue to form a theory. It if fails to confirm, you go back and find what is wrong- modify thinking and start again. We have a trade-off between these two. Our extreme for control will take place in lab experiments and quasi and field experiments, whereas.