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sing the topic you have developed in PSY-530, write a Research

Proposal (2,000-2,500 words) on a topic relevant to the course. To

complete the Research Proposal, do the following:

Review the attached document “Research Proposal Guidelines”, as well as Topic 7 lecture section on The Results and Discussion Sections in the Research Proposal for a brief overview pertaining to “how to” complete the assignment.

Introductory section: Include hypothesis and a review of the literature.

Method section: Include subsections on Participants, Apparatus/Materials/Instruments, Procedure, and Design.

Results section: Include statistic, critical values, degrees of freedom, and alpha level.

Discussion section: Include interpretation of results, ethical concerns, limitations of study, and suggestions for future research.

Figures and Tables section: Include a minimum of two (either two figures, two tables, or a figure and a table).

Include at least 8-10 scholarly references.

This course is a study of social, group, and multicultural factors affecting individual behavior. Attention is given to the development of attitudes, leadership roles, group thinking, sources of conflict, altruism, attraction, effects of competition and cooperation, analysis and evaluation of propaganda techniques, and the influence of mass communication on social awareness and control.

The study of social psychology is essential because, as the world changes, so do the

people. Traditionally, this scientific study of human behavior describes human conduct as a result

of the interplay of mind and social settings. What is also crucial to examine about the focus on

social psychology over time are new influences, research patterns across historical periods,

societal influences, and how ethics have changed over time.

To what extent will someone obey or follow someone even when it goes against their

beliefs? In 1963 Stanley Milgram recruited groups of participants. The situation is set up, so the

participant (the teacher) is set up to teach the student a list of math problems then test the student

on it. If the student makes an error, they are to be punished by way of electric shock. In the

study, the student asks the teacher to stop as the “shocks” increase. The researcher tells the

teacher to continue with the shocks. The hypothesis for the study was that under the correct

situations people will follow directions from a person of authority even if it means harming or

killing another person or people. At some point, the student stops answering the questions and

the researcher says to take the no answer as an incorrect answer and shock the student anyway.

However, when the teacher could see and hear the student, they were more likely to look away

but still follow the instructions.

Many have looked at the Milgram experiments on obedience as something that is not

repeatable but to study obedience in a different way is possible. In the first study, Milgram had

the participants meet the student and know that they were to shock them when they got a

question wrong. There was a pattern with the studies where the teacher (participant) could see

the student (accomplice) and when seeing them they would look away, but they would still

proceed in the shocking. In the Utrecht Studies, they were told to ridicule an unemployed person

while taking a test to get a job

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