PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Problem Solving, Forgetting Curve, Lewis Terman
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Anecdotal evidence: evidence gathered from others or self experience. Experiment: scientific tool used to measure the effect of one variable on another. Unit 3: controlled groups: comparing manipulations with control groups. Experimental group - receive manipulation of the variable. !2: differences between groups should be minimal, differ only in independent variable, difference must be due to independent variable, within-subjects designs ensure similarity between experimental groups. Within-subject design- manipulating the independent variable within each participant to minimize the effect of external variables on the dependent measure. Practice effect: improved performance over the course of an experiment due to becoming more experienced: between-subjects designs must consider confounding variables. Confounding variable: a variable other than the independent variable that has an effect on the results. Unit 1: introduction to learnings: we experience more than one type of learning, case study: treating headaches caused from bad weather, the two types of unconscious learning: Classical conditioning- allows to associate two related events.
