Simplified Edition · Module 04

Social & Critical Psychology

Influence, categories and power, and the question of where a finding ends and an interpretation of it begins.

  • 12 activities
  • 6 to 7 minutes each
  • 79 minutes end to end
One thing happened. Which account you reach for decides what there is to explain.

The activities

In teaching order

  1. The Method Comes Last

    Why the decision that shapes a study most is the one taken before it starts

    6 min

  2. Where the Prevalence Comes From

    How a description acquires a prevalence and a membership, neither of which was found

    7 min

  3. Four People, One Score

    Why the same attitude produces completely different behaviour, and what that does to a correlation

    7 min

  4. Two Reasons to Agree

    How to tell normative from informational influence, and why a conformity rate needs a room

    6 min

  5. Nine Things She Said

    Why every framework for the self has something it cannot see

    6 min

  6. Five Ways to Write It Up

    How an accurate account decides what kind of person somebody is and what happens next

    7 min

  7. The Frame You Take With You

    Why a figure worked out with other people is still there when they have gone

    6 min

  8. Ahead, or Better Off

    Why people pay points to be further ahead when they cannot benefit at all

    7 min

  9. How Many, and At What

    Why two theories of crowd action disagree about shape rather than about amount

    7 min

  10. Power Lens Laboratory

    Power, critical analysis and the consequences of a theoretical lens for intervention

    6 min

  11. What the Instrument Actually Sees

    What a measure of prejudice records, and how far that is from what it is called

    7 min

  12. Where the File Stops

    Why what somebody measured decides what the explanation can be about

    7 min

Elsewhere

Every activity here has a full-length twin in the main collection, linked from the foot of the activity itself.