PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Francis Sumner, Margaret Floy Washburn, Abraham Maslow
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Sigmund freud: unconscious wishes, thoughts, desires, repression: thoughts are held out of awareness, internal motives/conflicts drive behavior. Abraham maslow: no to behaviorism/psychoanalysis, we make choice. Margaret washburn: first woman awarded a ph. d. in psychology (1894) Francis cecil sumner: first african-american man awarded a ph. d. in psychology (1920) Inez beverly prosser: first african-american woman awarded a ph. d. in psychology (1933) Research methods: or how we come to know things: natural observation. Concerns: observer effect, observer bias, survey. Description of a single person with rare condition: natural clinical tests. Summary of multiple studies" findings: correlational studies. Examine the relationship between two or more events, measures, or variables. Statistic ranging from -1. 00 to +1. 00: closer to +/-1. 00 the stronger the relationship, correlation of 0. 00 = no relationship. Positive (+) correlation: increases in one variable are matched by increases in the other variable. Negative (-) correlation: increases in one variable are matched by decreases in the other variable. Correlation does not mean causation!: experiments.
