PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association, Dependent And Independent Variables, Dementia
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Placing them in an mri machine, then asking them a y/n question. If yes, think of tennis; if no, think of houses. Thinking of tennis and houses portray distinct activities in the brain that can be detected by medical imaging, then translated to whether they answered y/n. Research experiments are more considerate today compared to in the past; try to reduce the risks in tests. Ethics; safety, bene ts outweigh risk, informed consent, no coercion, privacy, declaration of helsinki, canadian psychological association, ethic review board. Mmse (mini mental state exam): used for dementia (is the dependent variable because derived from experiment) Descriptive method: naturalistic & laboratory observations, case studies, surveys. Theories: explanations that are valuable if they explain data; can be rejected, modi ed, supported. Hypothesis: testable prediction that ban be observed and measured. Empirical world: describe things that are experienced by most individuals in a similar manner.
