PSYC 315 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Ethnography, Hindsight Bias, Leon Festinger
15 Sep 2016
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After we know the outcome of something, we start looking for reasons why the outcome occurred. The trick is to predict the outcome before you know the. Formulating hypotheses and theories results: research begins with a hypothesis that the researcher wants to test, many studies stem from a researcher"s dissatisfaction with existing theories and explanations, leon festinger. Dissatisfied with the behaviorism theory as an explanation of why people change their attitudes. This story captured public fears and went viral. This lead to the idea of diffusion of responsibility which is a concept where the bystanders assume that someone else called the police or would help. Research designs: 3 types of methods. Experimental method: any of the methods could be used to explore a specific research question o. The observational method: describing social behavior: observational method- the technique whereby a researcher observes people and systematically records measurements or impressions of their behavior.
