PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Peripheral Nervous System, Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud
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Psychology behavior and mental process and how they affect organism. Critical thinking ability to make decision on evidence rather than emotion. Phrenology different brain areas accounted for specific character and personality traits. Breaking down of experience into elements for analysis. Evolutionary help to explain human commonalitie s in cognition. Theory an organized system of assumptions and principles that purports to explain a specific set of phenomena and their interrelationships. Hypothesis a statement that attempts to predict a phenomena. Correlational coefficient - measure of correlation (+1, -1) Single blind study people do not know what they are taking. Double blind study - researchers do not know. Longitudinal experimental that takes place over a long time. Cross sectional looking at different people at the same time. 3)research of a species, discovery practical application, clearly theoretical question, improve human welfare, study learning, memory, emotion and social behavior. Dominant traits that you inherent and manifest. Recessive traits that you inherent but do not manifest.
