PSYC 100 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Dopamine, Working Memory, Stereotype

• School: StFX
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Angela Weaver

Document Summary

Hindsight bias: looking back at something and thinking you should have seen it coming. Dualism: mind and body are separate yet intertwined. Introspection: inspecting and reporting the content of their thoughts. Conscious experience can be broken down to different parts. Functionalism: stream of consciousness, functions served by mind and how it operates. Behaviourism: you should be able to measure things. Psychoanalysis: dreams had to do with actual life, unconscious had conscious meaning. Humanistic: accepting potential and treatment of psychological disorder. Experimenter expectancy effect: actual change in the behaviour of the people or nonhuman animals being observed that is due to the expectations of the observer. Operational definition: quantitative and qualitative explanation to get an unbiased definition. Positive correlation: one goes up both go up. Negative correlation: one goes up and one goes down vice versa. Hawthorne: change actions because you know someone is watching you. Construct validity: the extent to which variables measure what they are supposed to measure.