PSY 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nature Neuroscience, Therapeutic Touch, Neuropsychology
3 Oct 2017
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The study of how individuals acquire knowledge. An example of tenacity is believing that black cats are bad luck simply because you heard the phrase too many times. Neuropsychology is the study of people who have some sort of abnormality going on with their brain/brain damage. (hit in the head, stroke, alzheimers, parkinsons, etc. ) Kennedy, d. p, gl scher, j. , tyszka, j. m, & adolphs, r (2009). Personal space regulation by the human amygdala, nature neuroscience, 12, 1228-1227. Con rmation of ndings: repeat experiments to con rm their original results. Self-correction: public scrutiny, replication can change views of phenomena. Control: of unwanted (extraneous) variables that could in uence the results of a research project. Variable: any event, situation, behavior, or individual characteristic that varies - that is, has at least two values. Independent variable (iv): what the experimenter directly manipulates to determine it"s in uence on behavior. Dependent variable (dv): a response or behavior that the experimenter measures.
