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Social Approach

Social Approach. ‘Behavioural study of Obedience’, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67:371-8. EVALUATION. 1. Method: Controlled Observation. What elements of this study make it possible to treat this study as a lab experiment?

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Social Approach

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  1. Social Approach ‘Behavioural study of Obedience’, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 67:371-8 EVALUATION

  2. 1. Method: Controlled Observation What elements of this study make it possible to treat this study as a lab experiment? Why is this study considered to be a controlled observation rather than a lab experiment? What method was used to collect the data?

  3. 1. Method: Experiment

  4. 1. Method: Experiment

  5. 1. Method: Snapshot What is a snapshot study? Why is this study considered to be a snapshot study? Was this Milgram’s original intention?

  6. 1. Method: Snapshot

  7. 2. Sample How do we define a sample? What is the sample in this study?

  8. 2. Sample

  9. 2. Sample

  10. 3. Data collection What is data? Why do psychologists need to collect data?

  11. 3. Data: Qualitative

  12. 3. Data: Quantitative

  13. 3. Data: Quantitative What is the advantage of collecting both types of data?

  14. 4. Reliability This refers to whether the findings are consistent over time and within scores • What aspects of the study were reliable? 2. What aspects of the study were not reliable?

  15. 4. Reliability Are findings consistent over time? • Test-retest method:

  16. 5. Validity

  17. 6. Suggested Changes If you were doing the study now are there any changes that you would make and why?

  18. 7. Debates • Determinism Vs Free Will • Reductionism Vs Holism • Nature-Nurture • Ethnocentrism • Psychology as a science • The usefulness of Psychological Research

  19. 7c. Nature versus nurture • Nature: • Nurture:

  20. 7d. Ethnocentric bias Are Milgram’s conclusions more applicable to the USA than anywhere else. Why do you think this might be?

  21. 7f. Individual versus situational approach Evidence to support: Situational: Individual:

  22. 7g. Usefulness of the research Was the research useful and, if so, how?

  23. 8. Issues • Ethics • Ecological Validity (earlier in presentation) • Longitudinal-Snapshot (earlier in presentation) • Qualitative & Quantitative Data (earlier in presentation)

  24. 8. Ethical Issues What does ethics refer to? Why do we need ethical guidelines for psychological research?

  25. 8. Ethics

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