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Social Psychology, Social Behavior is rooted in Biology, Theory -…

- - - - Conscious and deliberate
      - Unconscious but automatic
  - - - Eg. 1951 Priceton-Dartmouth Football game Demonstration
    - - Beliefs about others and ourselves
- - - - Laboratory are used for controlled situations
      - Field are used for everyday situations
    - - Correlational
        
        Naturally occurring relationships among variables
        
        It allows for predictions to be made but not tell whether changing one variable will actually cause change in another
        
        Done through Survey research
        
        Random sample, unrepresentative samples, order of questions, response options, working of questions (framing)
      - Experimental
        
        Seeking evidence to cause-effect relationship by manipulating one or more variables while controlling others
        
        Control - Manipulating Variables
        
        Independent variable - experimental factor that the researcher manipulates
        
        Dependent variable - the variable being measured and depends on the manipulation of the independent variable
        
        Random assignment - Process of assigning participants to conditions of an experiment such that all persons have the same chance of being in a given condition. This is to eliminate extraneous factors
- - - - Examples; Missed/misinterpreted clues of 9/11, and 2008 world financial crisis