PSYC 2120- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 66 pages long!)
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Part 1: intro: the scientific study of how people think feel behave in response to other people, all within a social context, most people will disobey a person in authority who orders them to hurt a stranger . Intuition is good but not always correct: research methods are how social psychologists test their ideas (or theories) about social behavior, theory: set of principles that explain and predict observed events. How do social psychologists test their ideas: participant observation: social psychologists place themselves in real situations to understand social phenomena better, ethnography: researcher is present. By the last year of the study all of the women were underweight a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to ca(cid:374)ada(cid:859)s health guideli(cid:374)es: playgirl ads: analyzed from 1986-1997. Body size increased dramatically in muscle, not fat: nba study: analyzed videos of all 30 nba teams during 2008-2009 season, participant observation: coded occurrence and duration of tough from videos. Fistbumps, hugs, highfives: archival methods: stats from nba website.
