PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Vascular Dementia, Sleep Disorder, Circadian Rhythm

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Anne Merriwether

Document Summary

Psychodynamic -> combination of nature to nurture. Cognitive -> focus on thinking, reasoning, and problem solving. Conductive ( and inductive reasoning (generalization: reasoning from detailed facts to general principles. ) Social-cultural -> difficult to move away from our context b/c we"re very social. Industrial organizational -> work conditions, human gene interface, sexual harassment. Social -> why people are attracted to each other, obedient, judgemental. Precision something (e. g. a variable, term, or object) in terms of the specific process or set of validation tests used to determine its presence and quantity. An example of an operational definition might be defining the weight of an object in terms of the numbers that appear when that object is placed on a weighing scale. The weight then, is whatever results from following the (weight) measurement procedure, which should be repeatable by anyone. This is in contrast to operationalization that uses theoretical definitions. Reliance on empirical evidence (derived from naturalistic observation or from experimental procedures. )