{"id":3977,"date":"2018-07-27T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2019-05-26T00:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T04:30:56","slug":"social-psychology-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/social-psychology\/social-psychology-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Social Psychology-<\/strong> scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. (Social thinking, Social influence, Social relations)<\/p>\n<p><u>Compare and Contrast:<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Personality Psychology:<\/strong> focuses on individual; how differences in character traits influence behavior<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sociology:<\/strong> Focuses on group; how various overarching factors (e.g. class conflict, competition btw ethnic groups) influence general patterns of behavior; concerned with topics such as: social class, social structure, and social institutions<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Psychology:<\/strong> Focuses on the individual; how a person\u2019s social situations (e.g. other people in the environment, their attitudes and their behaviors) affect that person\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals of the scientific method:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Description<\/li>\n<li>Prediction<\/li>\n<li>Understanding<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of the scientific method:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Empirical Approach- Knowledge is gain exclusively through direct observations<\/li>\n<li>Systematic, Controlled Observation<\/li>\n<li>Unbiased, Objective Reporting<\/li>\n<li>Clear Operational Definition- e.g. you cant measure aggression; however you can measure the # of times a brother hits a sister<\/li>\n<li>Valid and Reliable Measurement<\/li>\n<li>Testable Hypothesis<\/li>\n<li>Critical, Skeptical Attitude<\/li>\n<li>Self-correcting- multiple observations, multiple methods of studying similar phenomena<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Theory<\/strong>&#8211; Integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events (e.g. obedience to authority)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hypothesis<\/strong>-Testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events<\/p>\n<p><strong>Field Research- <\/strong>Everyday situations (Dutton and Aron Attraction study) <strong>Laboratory Research-<\/strong>Controlled situation (Milgrams Obedience study)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Experimental Research- <\/strong>Seeks clues to cause-effect relationships by manipulating one or more variables<\/p>\n<p><strong>Positives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Control<\/li>\n<li>Can imply causation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Negatives<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Limited in the range of theories that can be tested<\/li>\n<li>May be artificial<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Correlation Research- <\/strong>Naturally occurring relationships among variables<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Positives: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Examine a broader range of phenomena<\/li>\n<li>Naturalistic setting<\/li>\n<li>Often easier, cheaper, faster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Negatives:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Does NOT imply causation (3<sup>rd<\/sup> variable problem)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Independent Variable- <\/strong>Experimental factor that a researcher manipulates<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dependent Variable- <\/strong>Variable being measured; depends on manipulations of the independent variable<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extraneous Variable- <\/strong>Variable that affects the dependent variable and is not the independent variable <strong>Experimental Control-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Psychology- scientific study of how people think about, influence, and relate to one another. (Social thinking, Social influence, Social relations) Compare and Contrast: Personality Psychology: focuses on individual;&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/social-psychology\/social-psychology-intro\/\">Continue Reading<span> Social Psychology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[102],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}