PSYC 3221 1st Edition Lecture 1 Current Lecture Is social psychology simply common sense Hindsight bias The tendency to exaggerate after learning an outcome one s ability to have foreseen it Also known as the I knew it all along phenomenon GRABE BARGE ETRYN ENTRY WREAT WATER Social psychology and related disciplines Social psychology and sociology Social psychology and anthropology Social psychology and personality psychology similarity of variables Levels of explanation Brief History Infancy McDougall 1908 and Ross 1908 Norman Triplett 1898 Floyd Allport 1924 Brief History These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Adolescence Muzafer Sherif 1935 1936 social norms Kurt Lewin 1931 1935 1936 1943 Father of Modern Social Psychology Field Theory emphasis on theory subjective interpretation construal gave field direction influential students Brief History Adulthood Leon Festinger Cognitive dissonance theory 1957 and Social comparison theory 1954 Crisis 1960s and 70s No universal principles social constructionism Lack of utility Ethical concerns How we do social psychology Forming and testing theories and hypotheses Correlational research Detecting natural associations Correlation versus causation Survey research How we do social psychology Experimental research searching for cause and effect Control Manipulating variables Random assignment The great equalizer The ethics of experimentation
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