Doing Social Psychology: Laboratory and Field Exercises

by Edited by Glynis M. Breakwell , Hugh Foot , Robin Gilmour

• ISBN13: 9780521335638
• ISBN10: 0521335639
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This collection of classroom-tested laboratory and field exercises engages students and their instructors in a thorough exploration of current central problems and topics in social psychology. The book is divided into three sections: technique demonstrations, technique applications, and problem investigations. Each section includes exercises on topics such as questionnaire design, interviewing, speech style, the observation of children, eyewitness testimony, and cooperation and competition. Students are provided with the necessary background knowledge of each social phenomenon investigated to make their research effort involving and meaningful. An instructor's manual accompanies the book and provides the supplementary information instructors need to organize the exercises for their students.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. Technique Demonstrations: 1. Questionnaire design Robert Slater

2. Personnel interviewing: a mini-training program Mike Smith

3. Attitude measurement Bram Oppenheim

4. Social interaction: an observational analysis Hugh Foot

5. Ethogenic methods: an empirical psychology of action Rom Harré

Part II. Technique Applications: 6. Speech style and employment selection: the matched guise technique Peter Ball and Howard Giles

7. Recreational use of the street by boys and girls: an observational study Antony J. Chapman and Frances M. Wade

8. Social skills training Paul Robinson and Peter Trower

9. Person perception Mark Cook

10. Social dimensions of industrial bargaining Geoffrey M. Stephenson and Maryon Tysoe

Part III. Problem Investigations: 11. Eyewitness acuracy Ray Bull

12. Attribution processes Mansur Lalljee

13. An aspect of prejudice Glynis M. Breakwell

14. Crowd panic: competing and cooperating in groups Robin Gilmour

15. Norms and roles in the small group Peter B. Smith

Index.