PSYB10H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Gordon Allport, Statistical Significance, Social Proof
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Overview and methods of social psychology: definition of social psychology: and explain how the thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings. gordon allport, 1985. Outcomes to reflect the lack of causal conclusions that can be drawn; uses correlation test: quasi-experimental designs: a defined iv and dv with no experimental manipulation; uses t-test. Subject variable: a term sometimes used to denote a variable that groups participants on some pre-existing characteristics (e. g. , sex, ethnicity). A two-sample t-test examines whether two samples are different and is commonly used when the variances of two normal distributions are unknown and when an experiment uses a small sample size. Semantic network: related concepts are stored closely together in memory. Thought suppression: priming: priming is the implicit memory effect in which exposure to a stimulus influences response to a subsequent stimulus.
