PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Microsoft Powerpoint, Harry Harlow

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2001
• Professor: kimoneil

Document Summary

Research producers: are researchers who conduct research. Research consumers: are researchers who apply the information that they get from the research and use that as an example and apply it to real world problems. They distinguish good and bad research therefore they use critical assessment in their research. Article on facebook and self-esteem: discuss questions: *** go to the (cid:862)mozart effe(cid:272)t(cid:863) section page 17 to answer these questions *** Empiricists: they rely on research studies through observations. Freud (cid:894)psy(cid:272)hologist(cid:895) (cid:272)ould not support his theory su(cid:272)h as the (cid:862)id(cid:863) because he did not test his theory, therefore his theories cannot be proved to be true. Theories must be tested and supported in order to prove that they are correct and they must be clear. The contact-comfort theory (example of the theory-data-cycle): harry. Harlow performed an experiment on monkeys and hypothesized that infant monkeys spend most time with comfort from their mother.