01:830:101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Naturalistic Observation, Unconscious Mind, Scientific Method

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: K.Brynildsen

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This is intended to be a guide only. You are responsible for all of the lecture material and assigned reading material. Research methods: what contribution did descartes make to psychology, rationalism. He agreed with socrates and plato about the existence of innate ideas and the mind being "entirely distinct from the body". What are positive and negative correlations: a measure of relationship between 2 or more variables (anything that can change or vary, + an increase in one variable tends to be associated with an increase in the other. A correlation of 1, whether it is +1 or -1, is a perfect correlation. In perfect correlations, the data points lie directly on the line of fit. The further the data are from the line of fit, the weaker the correlation. In your caffeine study, for example, it is possible that the students who received caffeine also had more sleep than the control group.