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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 11:38:00 CST
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- From: Betty Harris <B1H6017@TAMVENUS.BITNET>
- Subject: What's new and exciting in Social Psych?
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- I had an interesting phone call from a prof of mine at the
- school I attended for my MA. The school has a masters program
- that puts out experimental, couseling and school psychology
- majors. The program is very strong in the areas of statistics
- and computers and to a lesser extent in basic research design,
- but has a definite behavorist bias. They're restructuring their
- program a bit and he's tryin to decide whether to add an upper
- level undergrad social psych course or some other course. He
- asked me "Hey Betty, What's new and exciting in the
- field of social psychology?"
- Well... I didn't have a real good answer for him.
- I rambled a bit bout attitudes and persuasion eg the
- elaboration liklihood model, Chaiken's model; measurement
- issues in attitude behavior consistancy ala Fishbein & Ajzen,
- Epstein, Snyder & Ickes, Mischel, but I was a bit disappointed
- that I really couldn't make a strong case for the social
- psych course. *shrug* now it's buggin me! Does anyone out there in
- Psygradland have any better answers for him???
-
- He also asked. "Why should I teach a social psych course?
- Will that help prepare them for grad school better than
- some other course?"
- On this one I leaned toward measurement and methodology
- eg Fishbein & Ajzen, Epstein, Snyder & Ickes on measurement issues
- and Cronbach and Meehl, Campbell and Fiske on construct
- validity. As I think this would better prepare people for PhD
- programs that a general social psych course would. How
- would you respond to his question?
-
- Time to go give a final exam!
- (Jeeeez it's nice not having to take final exams!)
- Betty
-