PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Facial Recognition System, Dependent And Independent Variables, Frontal Lobe
24 Jan 2018
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Primary: those you are born with (testciles vs ovaries) Secondary: appear at puberty (hips get wider vs facial hair) Pituitary gland (connected to the base of the hypothalamus) controls other glands. Controls vegetative function: functions of the body we do subconsciously. Controls body function changes between sleeping state and awake state: cere(cid:271)ellu(cid:373) (cid:862)little (cid:271)rai(cid:374)(cid:863, smaller version of cerebral cortex. Superior colliculus (orienting reflexes, highly adaptive: visual stimuli. Inferior colliculus: auditory stimuli orienting reflexes, highly adaptive, teg(cid:373)e(cid:374)tu(cid:373) (cid:862)grou(cid:374)d(cid:863): Research methods: need to test statements to see if they are true. Research based on correlation: implies that two or more factors are associated with one another: always a third factor, cannot make inferences based on correlation (+1) (-1) (0) Experiment: researcher manipulates 1 variable and measures the effect of the manipulation on another. Hypothesis: prediction of what will happen: prediction of the outcome. Experimental groups: determined by the independent variable.
