PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Polysomnography, Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Psychology: the study of behaviour and mental processes and how they"re shaped by experience using scientific research. Perspectives on behaviour: biological, cognitive, behavioural, sociocultural. The scientific method: observing, developing theories to explain observations, making predictions (designed to make information as accurate and objective as possible) Hypothesis: testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measure (testable, falsifiable) Theory: general principles/explanations for broad observations (testable, falsifiable) ((built from hypotheses) The researcher determines whether this variable produces change in another variable. Different participants in each condition (between subject designs) A control group (does not receive change) The same participants in each conditions (within subject designs) Both groups received both experimental and control but usually at different times. Objective measurement: a quality or behaviour that is measured must be the same regardless of who or what is being measured. Hawthorne effect: a behaviour change that occurs as a result of being observed.