Psychology 2070A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Nonviolent Video Game, Kurt Lewin, Psycinfo

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Alexa Clerke

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Social psychology is built on the scientific method. It can make you a better, more sophisticated consumer of information. The research process involves coming up with ideas, refining them, testing them, and interpreting the meaning of the results obtained. Getting ideas and finding out what"s been done. Every social psychology study begins with a question i. e. why do bicyclists race faster in the presence of other bicyclists? . Some databases, such as psychinfo are specific to psychology literature. Basic research seeks to increase our understanding of human behaviour and is often designed to test a specific hypothesis from a specific theory. Applied research focuses more specifically on making applications to the world and contributing to the solution of social problems. Refining ideas: defining and measuring social psychological variables. To test their hypotheses, researchers always must decide how they will define and measure the variables in which they are interested.