DEP 3053 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Music Therapy, Heart Rate, 3 Lbs

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Clinical and Health Psychology
• Course: DEP 3053
• Professor: Natalie Christina Ebner

Document Summary

Easily summarized, compared, charted, but some nuances and individual distinctions are lost. Description of particular conditions and participants expressed ideas. Reflects cultural and contextual diversity and complexity but also more vulnerable to bias = Correlational: describes strength of the relationship between two or more events or characteristics using a correlation coefficient. Correlation can exist between two variable if one is more or less likely to occur when the other occurs. Often statistics are used to analyze results (effect size test of significance) Doesn"t indicate what causes people to do what they do. Standard sets of questions used to obtain peoples attitudes or beliefs about a particular topic collected via interviews, written questionnaire, etc. Can be influenced by response biases (social desirability) and demand characteristics. Sometimes used to test ideas in process, raise hypotheses. Most dramatic and extensive transformation of entire life occurs before birth. Germinal period: first 2 weeks after conception; implantation. Fetal period: 2 months after conception until birth.