PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Lightdark, Psycinfo, Temporal Lobe
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Professor sam develops a test to measure aptitude for selling computers. Hitechnol and stores are asked to take the test on two occasions, a few weeks apart. A correlation of +0. 82 is found between applicants"s scores on the two administrations of the test. : step 1: formulate a testable hypothesis: back at the university, professor sam is teaching a course in theories of personality. He decides to use the same midterm exam that he gave last year even though the exam includes questions about theorists that he did not cover or assign reading on this year. Validity: behavioural component of emotions: people can accurately and quickly discern emotions from facial expressions, between subjects design: each participant is in only one condition identifying mentally subnormal ones. Used mental age to say if a child was average, advanced or retarded: biological correlates of intelligence: research indicates that both white and grey matter in the brain are important in determining intelligence.
