PSYC340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Fundamental Attribution Error, Scientific Method, Ingroups And Outgroups
30 Mar 2016
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Ch 1 deining the field of applied social psychology. Social psychology: science of how people think about, feel about, relate to, and inluence one another: set of research methods that make up the scieniic method, foundaion of core value. Based on empirical tests: research study in which the idea can be refuted or supported, and conducted so it can be replicated. Accuracy: precise, error-free measurement and collecion of informaion (data) Objecivity: minimizaion of bias in data collecion and proposiion tesing. Open mindedness: readiness to accept as valid evidence may be inconsistent with one"s belief or. Skepicism: refusing to believe indings and conclusions w/o rigorous veriicaion theories. Ethics: acceptance of absolute importance of ethical behaviour in conducing research. Descripion: entails idenifying and reporing the details and nature of a phenomenon and recoding its frequency of occurrence. Predicion: form an understanding requires knowing what factors are systemaically related to the phenomenon of interest.
