PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Action Potential, Myelin, Naturalistic Observation
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Areas of research: biological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, evolutionary, social, physiological, perception, personality, developmental, psychometrics, health, forensics. Disadvantage -- limited generalizability; can"t determine causality, bias. Example-- jane; 20 year old female began individual treatment for an; developed obsessive compulsive sx; illustrates overlap between two disorders-- An & ocd; contamination by grease vs. typical germs : correlation: correlation does not mean causation; something that works in one situation may not work in another situation just like cow urine for treat cancer. A correlation is a measure of association between two variables. Cannot infer causality: directionality problem, potential for a third variable (confound) gpa and iq, experimental: Considered the most powerful tool for determining causal relationships. Random assignment: ensures that every participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the conditions. This minimizes the chance that a pre-existing difference between groups is the cause of the experimental effect .
