Upon receiving this assignment, I was rather confused on how I would go about conducting an experiment for Social Psychology. So far this year we have learned of numerous experiments done in the past that have been more physical: experiments done by Milgram, Asch, Zimbardo, and many others. Honestly, I am rather shy when it comes to social events, so I was worried about what direction I could take on this assignment.
I decided to take a social topic and discover how people view and respond to that topic. The topic that I chose was same-sex rights and whether or not you believed they deserved to have those rights. The way I went about conducting my experiment was I created a survey and handed it out to 20 people, 10 being over the age of 35 and 10 under the age of 35. My objective was to compare and contrast my findings between the generations about homosexuality.
I also observed how people reacted to a person who was openly homosexual. A friend of mine, who happens to be......
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