Psychology's Six-Step Research

Psychology is the scientific study of individual’s behavior and inferred mental processes. Those who study psychology focus on trying to understand human behavior through observations, using the six-step research method. The very reason why psychology is considered to be a science is because it applies the scientific method to comprehend natural occurrences. Those six steps that psychology follows are: ask a question, develop a hypothesis, select a method and design the study, collect data, analyze data and draw conclusions, and report findings. People tend to make different construals, meaning interpretations, about events and experiences they encounter on a daily basis. However, these construals differ from one person to the other, because …show more content…
The program consists on sending one’s kid for a full day in jail so that they can get the prison experience, and this includes guards treating them like any other prisoner. However, the guards engage in more aggressive behavior like hitting and screaming in order to help them “understand” the true meaning of jail. This way the program hopes to scare children away from committing aggressive and non-aggressive crimes. Yet, if the prison applied the real steps to prevent aggressive behavior according to social psychology they would learn that most of the characteristics of their program provoke aggression rather than prevent it. First of all, they are creating an unpleasant event following the cognitive neoassociationist view, and then they producing an external reason for the children to have an aggressive drive, which is only making them, want to be …show more content…
First of all, I would do these trainings on a different facility, rather than jail. Then, the schedule would consist three different activities. To begin, the children will be shown a movie with no violence at all, just pure day to day situation in which people get into arguments, but find a way to make it work without getting involved in any type of aggressive behavior. This would be social modeling, the expose of good media. Secondly, I would get children in groups of two, and according to their group they will have to play a difficult hand-game that at some point both parties will fail. Every time one person fails and accidentally hits the other kid’s hand they have to say “I’m sorry,” and since each kid will experience that moment of failure and accidentally hit their partner’s hand the theories of diffuse frustration with apologies and teaching empathy would be put into action preventing aggression. Lastly, they would have to play all together different games in order to enhance their social skill training, which is getting along with other people. Even though training like this has never been done before, that I know of, I think that it could prevent aggression further more than Scared Straight ever