PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Match.Com, Psychology Today, Psychometrics
30 Jul 2020
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Counselor- a type of person you go to when you have a bad day to talk with. Other areas of applied psych (e. g. , government, match. com, etc. ) People"s experience of the world is highly subjective. Mnemonic for the 7 unifying themes: psychology as a field of study, empirical, theoretically diverse, evolves in sociohistorical context, behavior: Theory: determined by multiple causes, shaped by cultural heritage. Influenced jointly by heredity and environment: people"s experience of the world is highly subjective, an integrated set of principles that explain and predict observed events. Hypothesis: testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between events. Fact : be cautious, only something that you can observe (even then it"s iffy ) Observational (describe: define, classify, and categorize events and their relationships. Correlational (predict: predict how one variable will relate to another variable. Experimental (explain: identifies causes of events. The experimental factor that a researcher manipulates. May depend on manipulations of the iv.
