PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Random Assignment, Informed Consent, Response Bias
1 Jun 2016
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Understanding and prediction: how an explanation can be created about a particular human behaviour (construct a theory that explains this and similar behaviors, predict when might occur) Application and control: whether can use understanding of behavior (from research) to apply/ help people. Uses theories set of interrelated ideas can be used to explain observations use systematically to guide future research, generate new hypothesis. If something is true, something else should be true, test it, see if it"s true. Dutton and aron: some evidence for heightened for sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety . See something frightening, two simultaneous things: body reacts, psychological arousal to stimulus (heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, sweating), cognitive operations (accessing and processing threat) fear. Only when these two things happen we construct feeling of. Hypothesis: if ^ true, fear sometimes mistaken as sexual arousal. Independent variables: type of bridge bridge (scary or not scary) and research assistant (male or female) 4 groups.
