PSYB10H3 Lecture Notes - Counterfactual Thinking, Semantic Network, Pilot Experiment
Document Summary
Reaction time task: longer time spent, the subjects are distantly related to each other. Priming: exposure to a stimulus to influences a response later to that stimulus. subliminal and explicit. Eeg: measures the electric activity caused by ionic flows within the neurson. Plethysmographs: shows how much blood is flowing through the body. Scientific method: all about forming an hypothesis and deducting. Correlation design: looking for relation between 2 dependant variables. There should be random sampling because you don"t want to only use a certain group and generalize. **proper interpretation: if you have a correlational study: they covary and predict but they do not cause each other. They were already created and we don"t manipulate the to be in that group, it"s just how it is. Stratisfied sampling: random but get a certain number in each group. **proper interpretation: you can discuss differences, covariance and prediction but there is no causal relationship**
