PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Suggestibility, Stanford Prison Experiment, Pluralistic Ignorance
Lecture 3
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
1:33 PM
Research Methods and Social Psychology Cont'd
Experimental Design
Experimental group - receives manipulation or receives of manipulation
Control group - doesn't receive manipulation or receives another type of manipulation
Order of doing things
• Ethics approval
• Operational definition of variable
• Hypothesis formation
• Sample
o
Experimental -- treatment -- measurement
Control -- no treatment --
measurement
Comparing research methods
• Descriptive
• Correlational
• Experimental
Statistics
• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential statistics
We need to belong
• Social beings
Dunbar's number
• 150 - the max number of relationships a person can maintain
• Or the number at which a social group can maintain stability via peer or interpersonal
contract
• Ie without overarching rules or law
• The number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uniited for a drink if
you happen to bump into them at a bar
Social Psychology
• Attribution theory
o Process by which individuals explain the causes of behaviour and events.. Especially
when behaviours are unexpected, goals are not attained or when actions are not
socially desirable
• Internal attribution
• External attribution
o Fundamental attribution error
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Experimental group - receives manipulation or receives of manipulation. Control group - doesn"t receive manipulation or receives another type of manipulation. Order of doing things: ethics approval, operational definition of variable, hypothesis formation. Experimental -- treatment -- measurement control -- no treatment -- measurement. Dunbar"s number: 150 - the max number of relationships a person can maintain, or the number at which a social group can maintain stability via peer or interpersonal contract. Ie without overarching rules or law: the number of people you would not feel embarrassed about joining uniited for a drink if you happen to bump into them at a bar. Social psychology: attribution theory, process by which individuals explain the causes of behaviour and events Especially when behaviours are unexpected, goals are not attained or when actions are not socially desirable. Size of group (7: number of dissenting voices, demographics (age - younger, gender - women, culture - collectivist)
