EXPERIMENTS ESSAY Flashcards
1
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What does psychological social psychology aim to do?
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establish universal laws about human behaviour based on reality, knowledge and science
2
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What does the sociological social psychology aim to do?
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acknowledge the complexities of social life and the autonomy of people
3
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Outline Paragraph 1 (science and the war)
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- developed out of positivism (Comte)
- aims to be deductive and objective
- value laden (Weber)
- developed after WW2 - Milgram
- However, events such as world wars are too complex
4
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What did Comte claim?
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“the only valuable knowledge is that which we cab observe”
5
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Outline Paragraph 2 (Gergen)
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- Gergen (1974) views SP as historical enquiry
- trying to establish universal laws of nature is futile
- artificial
- Martin and Sell: new social environment
- Gergen: historically relative - no clear cause and effect
- Bullying (Fanti et al, 2015)
- experiments conform to view that everything should be scientific
6
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Who came up with the bullying experiment?
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Fanti et al (2015)
7
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What year was Gergen writing?
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1974
8
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Outline Paragraph 3 (interaction)
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- experiments neutral and controlled vs social (interaction within the lab)
- Goffman: role/front face - Latane and Darley
- Dramaturgy - Milgram: science or “effective theatre”
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Outline Paragraph 4 (variables vs social approaches)
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- experiments rely on variables
- reductionist: breaks complex interactions into two banal points
- Conversation Analysis (Sacks)
