PSYC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Hans Selye, Sympathetic Nervous System
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It involves aspects of the self that cannot be changed. Concepts of discrimination: racism, sexism, classism, etc, discrimination may be a worse stressor because it is inherently personal and demeaning. Theory hypothesis data prediction confirmed or disconfirmed. Discrimination ptsd risky behavior poor health. Lecture 6: fundamental research issues: operational definitions- turning concepts from your hypothesis into specific variables/questions you can ask. If helping is operationally defined as mowing the lawn, men will likely be seen as more helpful than women. If helping is operationally defined as cooking dinner, the reverse will appear true. The third variable leads to a mistaken relationship between two others: cities with greater number of churches have higher crime rate. Operational definitions revisited: hypothesis is made up of at least 2 constructs (more discrimination will be related to more substance use) Dependent: hypothesis: discrimination substance use, the arrow represents a prediction, predictor variables = independent (iv, predicted variables (outcome) = dependent (dv)
