PSYC 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Foodborne Illness, Laterality, Proprioception
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In the sciences: most common explanation: reification (explanation by labeling) What about the level of explanation? (from top to bottom: psychology, biology, chemistry, physics. We can no longer look to physics for an absolute explanation. Revolutions in physics: newton and the apple tree, einstein. Reduces explanation in physics to the level of explanation of the other sciences: you can speak with certainty only about that which you have observed, the very act of observing changes that which is observed. Factual statements: class performance and arousal level, murder and temperature. Empirical laws: performance is related to arousal level. Case history: retrospective reconstruction, freud and anna o (hysteria) Part b: treatment naltrexone: multiple baseline design. Baseline 1 & 2: vertical tilt and lateral tilt. Test method: sat, act, intelligence, achievement. In today"s society, we have many issues with sexual disorders and sexual dysfunction. *correlational method: allows prediction of one variable from the level of another variable.
