Chapter 1) lecture definitions, mission and method Flashcards
Who was Norman Triplett? What did he Do?
Did the first social psych experiment in the 1890s. Measured if people were faster reeling in a fishing line by themselves or among others. Found when among others they reeled in faster
Who was Max Ringelman
Not a psychologist, was a farmer. when multiple people pull a rope together they don’t work as hard. social loafing.
Gordon Allport
Father of modern day psychology
Social Influence
How others affect us and how we affect others
Social thinking
how we think about ourselves and others
Social behavior
how we act in different social situations
social acheivement
how we can get what we want using social situations
what are the four major theoretical perspectives
sociocultural, evolutionary, social learning, social cognitive
Applied psychology
seeking to solve or improve some problem or issue in the world
basic psychology
seeking to gain more information
scientific method
Develop a theory
Generate a hypothesis
Test the hypothesis
Analyze the data
Evaluate and potentially…
Revise the theory
What are the three methods of social psychology
observational, correlational, experimental
Operational definition
how you define a variable for a study
self esteem
how we value ourselves
construct validity
does your operational definition actually represent the construct you are trying to define
confederate
an actor who is actually part of the research team but the participants are unaware that they are involved in the research team
correlation
a statistic describing the relationship between two variables
positive correlation
drink more coffee heart rate goes up
negative correlation
drink more coffee sleep goes down
no correlation
quantity of coffee and shoe size
naturalistic observation
when the researchers unobtrusively observe a phenomenon as it occurs in the world. think festinger reckon and schachter and the alien group
ethnography
going to different cultures to make observations about them, and using those observations to make theories
surveys
asking participants to answer questions
social desirability bias
a major issue it comes to surveys. people often times respond in a way they think is socially acceptable rather than how they are truthfully feeing
bogus pipeline
a way to get around bias. tell the participants you have a way to determine if they are being truthful or not
archival analysis
looking at data that has already been collected an d examine it from a different perspective. think census data from the past
meta - analysis
taking generally published and also unpublished studies that look at the same phenomena to see if there agreements between them
quasi experiment
observing the experiment when the experimenter has no control over certain variables. think - he can’t manipulate age
within subjects design
when you a participant in each of your experimental groups. it provides you with more control. is a stronger baseline when you are comparing the participant to themselves
between subjects design
popular in most research we find. when comparing experimental groups to each other and each participant is only in one group. generally you need more people and less time
confounds
also known as third variables. things outside your variable that are causing the relationship you are looking at. think heat ice cream and murder
stimulus sampling
not so sure
replication crisis
