Research Methods in Social Psychology:

1. Present examples of both self-report and observational research practices, including the advantages and disadvantages of each (based on your personal experience, if possible). [Example: Every year my cable internet service provider sends an email to survey customer satisfaction. This survey asks for self-report answers. This is a good method for a company to realize their service quality but there is a fundamental weakness on the reliability of answers...]

2. Differentiate random sampling from random assignment. Also, provide two pairs of examples of anindependent variable(IV) and adependent variable(DV) based on their definitions (e.g., in the study of the effect of emotion on children's behavior, the IV is emotion and the DV is behavior).

3. What do you think about the article written by Jordan and Zanna (1999)? The article can be found at:https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/psyifp/aeechterhoff/jordan_zanna.pdf