PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Zygosity, The Misunderstood, Human Leukocyte Antigen

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Prof

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Identify several elds in which psychologists may work. Describe the roles of psychological research, including the different types of psychologists and the problems they study. Explain structuralism and functionalism in relation to empiricism. Explain the ve principal steps of the scienti c method. Topic 3: psychological experiments and the ethics of psychological research. Distinguish between the two main types of design and the conclusions that we can draw from each. Summarize the ethical issues involved in psychological research. Explain the use of descriptive statistics, and the de nition and use of measures of central tendency, measures of variability and the measurement of association. Utilize methods and processes used in inferential statistics, including correlation and causation. Describe the heritability of certain traits, including whether they are polygenic. Analyze the adaptive functions of romantic relationships, kin relationships, friendships, and dominance hierarchies. Describe how behaviours are acquired (and extinguished) through classical conditioning.