PSYC 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensation Seeking, Pharmaceutical Drug, Regression Analysis

• School: University of Illinois
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 250
• Professor: Jaime L Derringer

Document Summary

Idea of looking for thrills to induce dopamine. Apoptosis (death of cells) of dopamine inducing cells. Treated with l dopa (a pharmaceutical drug) Very difficult to get an accurate amount of dopamine function in normal individuals when in a happy mood. In meta analysis, scientist have found that there is little to no way to determine the effect of gene variants and sensation seeking. A correlation of about . 07 = r, not very high or useful. The biology of dopamine is very complicated and yet to be explored completely. Multiple regression, the stat use of using many different correlations, must be used to even try to estimate the effectiveness of determining dopamine levels. Least well defined and most complicated of the big 5. Best defined as everything that wasn"t covered by the other 5. Used to make accurate guesses regarding music. Depths is accurately estimated in determining intelligence.