PSYS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Corpus Callosum, Spinal Cord, Psychologist
3 Oct 2016
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What is psychology: study of how we think/what we do b. Including: overt actions, mental functions, emotional functions, physiological functions. 5: general experimentalists: includes smaller subarea specialists. I/o: study psychology of work behavior social cognition a: engineering psychologists. 1. real-world experiment: quasi-experiment, manipulation is not controlled by scientist, correlation, not an experiment, positive, negative a. r. Statistics: descriptive: describe and reduce area, central tendency, mean, median, mode b. Inferential: tests we perform on descriptive statistics: measures of variability, standard deviation: average score deviation from the mean, variance: standard deviation squared. Intellectual development: what is a high quality center, staff should be educated and experienced. 3. low child-to-staff ratio low turnover rate for staff: why is research on day care difficult to conduct? time consuming. 1: parents are often reluctant to allow kids to participate, single parent upbringing, baruth"s 10 research-based steps of advice for the single parent.
