SACR 2900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Pathos, Operant Conditioning Chamber

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 2900
• Professor: Mark Munsterjhelm

Document Summary

Tuesday, january 9, 2018: why do we need research, for understanding, people and events, research makes you smarter. It allows you to come up with hypotheses, and helps you find things on your own: to overcome our own biases, research is empowering. Overgeneralization: assuming the existence of a general pattern based on a number of observed cases, warrior gene. Selective observation: the tendency to assume a general pattern, monkey business allusion, selective of what we observe, we see this in racism, stereotypes. We stop looking for potential solutions, rather than exhausting. Skinner was a famous psychologists; made a box. We want to explore, describe, explain, and evaluate social science research: finding the effectiveness of something, challenging other variables and opinions. Important for underrepresented groups: example is homeless people, housing first. Rich people or poor people: poor people are more likely to get obese.