Social Psych Flashcards
Ethics
Research into obedience and prejudice and findings in these areas
Practical issues
Designing questionnaires and interviews and social desirability and things like robbers cave exp
Reductionism
Risk of reductionism when drawing conclusions from social data - must be other factors
Comparisons between ways of explaining behaviour using different themes
The two theories of prejudice
The two theories of obedience
Psychology as a science
Issue of validity in questionnaires
Milgram using hypothetico deductive model and empirical evidence but also gathering qualitative data
Culture and Gender
Whether prejudice and obedience are influenced by cultural factors or according to gender
Nature - nurture
Role of personality in obedience compared with the role of the situation
An understanding of how psychological understanding has developed over time
Burger from Milgram
Issues of social control
Reducing prejudice or increase obedience
The use of psychological knowledge in society
Reducing conflict and prejudice
Issues relating to socially sensitive research
Racism or cultural differences in social psychology
