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Required Resources:

Feenstra, J. (2013). Social Psychology. San Diego: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. ISBN: 978-1-62178-578-1

· Chapter 1: Discovering Social Psychology SEE ATTACHED FILE

Billedo, C., Kerkhof, P. & Finkenauer, C. (2015). The use of social networking sites for relationship maintenance in long-distance and geographically close romantic relationships. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 18(3), 152-157.

Blakstad, O., (2008, Jul 10,). Experimental Resehttps://explorable.com/experimental-research (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Blakstad, O., (2008, Jul 17,). Research Designs. Retrieved from https://explorable.com/research-designs (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Burns, W.D. (2008). Research only matters if you do research that matters. Journal of College Science Teaching, 37(2), 12-14.           (ProQuest Document ID: 1447219371).

Experimental Research: http://www.experiment-resources.com/experimental-research.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. This site provides information about the steps of the scientific method. The site will allow students to understand and explore how science, research and experiments are conducted. Many examples are included.

Explorable.com (2009, May 2,). Statistical Correlation. Retrieved from https://explorable.com/statistical-correlation (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Explorable.com (2010, Jan 18,). Correlation and Regression. Retrieved from https://explorable.com/correlation-and-regression (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

OpenStax, Psychology. OpenStax CNX. Apr 9, 2018 http://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]. Retrieved from https://cnx.org/exports/[email protected]/psychology-6.1.pdf (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

arch. Retrieved from  Chapter 12: Social Psychology SEE ATTACHED FILE

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Social psychology is the scientific study of human thoughts, feelings, andbehavior as humans relate to and are influenced by others. However,many academic disciplines are interested in human thoughts, feelings, orbehavior. If you were to take a literature course, you would find yourselfcontemplating the thoughts of Ishmael in Moby Dick or the actions ofLady Macbeth in Macbeth. In an art course you might work on translatinga particular feeling into a sculpture or a painting. 

What makes socialpsychology different is the method it employs to study humans. As withother science-related fields, social psychologists use the scientific methodto learn about human beings, a method that employs careful observationand empirical evidence to come to conclusions. Social psychology, as a branch of psychology, focuses on howindividuals are affected by others; and, as related to sociology, socialpsychology looks at a person's social setting within the dynamics of the social system

Social psychology is often paired with another branch of psychology, personalitypsychology. One of the largest organizations for social psychologists, the Societyfor Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), includes personality psychologists.Social psychologists emphasize how different people act in similar ways insimilar situations, documenting how outside forces affect behavior. Personalitypsychologists focus on differentiating people from one another, observing howforces inside the person affect behavior. For example, to explain why your friendStuart joined a cult, a social psychologist might look at the persuasivetechniques the cult used to convince all of their converts to join. In contrast, apersonality psychologist would focus on how Stuart's tendency toward followingthose in authority makes him, but not someone else, particularly vulnerable tocults. 

 Thescientific method begins with a testable prediction, a hypothesis, which can be inspired by experiences in the world or developed from a theory, which is a set of principles or a framework for a set of observations based on previous research. Once a hypothesis has beendeveloped, the researcher will want to actually test the prediction. There are three basic methods for testing hypotheses: theobservational method, the correlational method, and the experimental method. Which one to use depends on the question asked.