[PSYCH 1X03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (69 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1X03
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Incorporate new information into our understanding of the world. Practice effect: improved performance over the course of an experiment due to becoming more experienced. Inferential statistics: statistics that allow us to use results from samples to make inferences about overall, underlying populations. Inductive reasoning: uses a specific observation to generalize. Random assignment: allows us to compare between different conditions of the experiment. Contingencies: when one stimulus reliably predicts the presentation of another, learned slowly, most knowledge learned in early trials, special cases can be learned in single trial. Conditional response (cr: the response that occurs once the contingency between the cs and the us has been learned. If conditions change such that the conditional stimulus is no longer a reliable cue, the conditional response will eventually fade. Implosive therapy: an individual with a particular phobia is encouraged to confront the. Cs that evokes their anxiety: the cs is presented in the absence of the associated us.