PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gestalt Psychology, Descriptive Statistics, Random Assignment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Brenda Baird

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Ancient societies deviance and the supernatural (mysticism) treatment. Trephination (taking a piece out of the skull) major paradigms in the development of psychology. Neuropsychology psychodynamic perspective: basic concepts of freud. The superego identifying the problem hypotheses vs. theories. Hypothesis: a statement of what you think should happen in your experiment. Theory: a set of statements designed to explain a set of results and is more encompassing than a hypothesis how psychologists do research: research methods. Experiments: keeping the enterprise ethical (con dentiality, anonymity, informed consent, debrie ng methods of control. Reliability of measurements vs. validity of measurements. Correlation: - a statistical measure of how closely two variables are associated. Statistical analyses: the way in which we determine statistical signi cance. Statistical signi cance: the likelihood that an observed relation or difference between two variables is not due to chance. Dendrytes= receives a neurotransmitter, will re if it ts into the receptor. Look at action potential picture: how neurons re.