PS374 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: When Prophecy Fails, Perceived Control, Safe Sex
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Chapter 2: social psychological theories: five goals of science are description, prediction, determining causality, explanation, and control fulfilling these goals involves carrying out the steps in the scientific process, a. Set of principles that explains, organizes, and predicts behaviour and events. Used to guide research and organize knowledge. Theory construction is a gradual process that is subject to revision. A theory gains acceptance when alternative hypotheses are falsified. Induction process of moving from specific to the general (inferring general principles from observing specific instances: c. hypothesis. A testable prediction of what you expect to find. Development of a specific hypothesis through a process of deduction (deriving specific hypotheses from the general hypotheses and propositions of the theory) Have to specify results that would support the theory and results that would not support the theory. Instruct them to behave in a similar manner (either deliberately flirty with others, or act cool and see if people approach them: possible dependent variables.
