SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scientific Method, Social Influence

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Glavin

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Assignment (second half of term) 25% Final exam (multiple choice and short answer) 40% The systematic stud of the nature and causes of human social behaviour . Trying to understand what happened during world war 2 (nazi germany) Over 1/2 of the experiment participants administered the electric shock. Found that he could change the outcome of how many people administered shock based on a few factors: Position of person giving orders to participant. Closeness to the person receiving the electric shock. Milgram"s study suggests that more than half of people would do it. Personality, on its own cannot explain a person"s behaviour. Social psychologists see how social traits can affect the psychology of people. Key ideas to take away from social psychology. Social psychoogists are skeptical of personal experience as a means or understanding human social behaviour: they rely instead on systematic observations. Socialization and the social origins of the self.