PSY 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nocebo, Descriptive Statistics, Standard Deviation

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Meagan Mackenzie

Document Summary

Facilitated communication: communicating with non-verbal autistic kids to help coordiante their motor skills. Why does research design matter (triumph of science over pseudoscience): Science has helped practitioners who work with individuals with autism to avoid wasting valuable time on fascilitated communication and other interventions that are ineffective. Science has allowed practitioners to develop and test treatments for autism that work. Reliance on common sense can lead to errors. Prefrontal lobotomy: surgical procedure that severes fibres connecting the frontal lobes of the brain from the underlaying thalamus. (cid:862)effe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e treat(cid:373)e(cid:374)t for s(cid:272)hizophre(cid:374)ia, a(cid:374)d other (cid:373)e(cid:374)tal disorders(cid:863) Egas moniz developed it and received nobel prize in 1949. Belivers of this surgery assumed that their clinical observation was a good evidence. After performing controlled studies, scientists fou(cid:374)d out that it"s useless. Operatio(cid:374) produ(cid:272)ed radi(cid:272)al (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges i(cid:374) (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour a(cid:374)d it did(cid:374)"t target s(cid:272)hizophre(cid:374)ia related (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. Believers were deceived by confirmation bias and na ve realism.