PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Amygdala, Central Tendency, Jane Goodall
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Ps 101 lecture 2 psychology: roots and goals. Review questions: founding disciplines, psychophysics, philosophy, science, founding father, wundt, two schools of thought, structuralism, functionalism, goals of psychology and what questions they answer, description what, explanation why, prediction when will it happen, control. Methods of study: descriptive: observation, naturalistic, seeing behaviour in natural setting, spontaneously produced, pros: ethical issues prevent other methods, cons: have to wait for an event to happen, observer bias, ex. Independent: the one that is manipulated: dependent: the one that is measured. Experimental and control groups: experimental: gets exposure to manipulation, control: does not get manipulation and treatment. Extraneous variable: something that will change the way manipulation is working, must think of it in advance before research design. Operationalize your variables: clear, attainable definition, some dependent variables fatigue 1-10 scale, high achievement number of ribbons, how many times someone answers a question, gpa, optimism scale, questionnaire to response to situations. Designs: quasi experimental versus experimental, cohort differences.
