Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Kundalini, Social Learning Theory, Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

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Next time: biological bases, scan: finish chapter 2 and page 65 73. Actively listening is important anticipate and attend to speaker, integrate lecture. Write down speaker"s comments in own words. Humans justify that they lied for a dollar and tell themselves that they didn"t really lie (1$ is not one"s morals) People that received 1$ believe they liked the study more than the 20$ people. Baby einstein makes babies more stupid, ivory soap. 1: design and execute the experiment variable and control, determine the truth , communicate the results, identify the problem: Hypothesis: tentative statement about a relation between 2 or more events hypotheses should be able to be tested. Theory: collection of hypothesis, an organizing system, more general and elaborate. Good theories generate good (hypotheses) e. g. theory of relativity. Compare (psychology): freudian theory look at unconscious motivation and conflicts that"ll help or hinder in development, behavior theory. Freudian theory is not testable, behavior theory is testable.