PSYCH 1X03 Study Guide - Foreign Accent Syndrome, Classical Conditioning, Exemplar Theory
8 Feb 2013
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Placebo effect: effect that occurs when an individual exhibits a response to a treatment that has no related therapeutic effect plan for it (blinding) creates participant bias. T-test: the probability of getting the results by chance if there is only on distribution. Muller believed that our brain worked on electrical impulses. Wilhelm wundt opened the first study of psychology. G stanley hall founded the american psychological association. The mind should be an off limits black box takes input and makes output outside the domain of science . Nurture over nature bf skinner: everything we want to know about an organism can be found by studying its behavior. Behavior modification positive and negative reinforcements. Argued that psychology could and must return to an interest of what foes on in the mind and under the right circumstances. Use models abstract representations of how the mind functions can be used to make testable predictions models are always changing.
