PSYC 1000 Midterm: Pysch Midterm Review

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Scientific literacy: ability to understand, analyze , apply information, knowledge gathering. Stage two: examine whether infor has been tested in studies. Principle of parsimony si(cid:373)plest e(cid:454)pla(cid:374)atio(cid:374) should (cid:271)e the o(cid:374)e (cid:449)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ept. Empiricism: knowledge based on careful observation, not common sense. Determinism: events governed by lawful cause and effect relationships (behaviour based on external and internal influences) Zeitgeist: general set of beliefs of a particular culture at a specific time. Psychophysics: relationship between physical world and material representation. Freud: psychoanalysis (approach explaining how behavior and personality influenced by unconscious mind) Objectivity: base perceptions of something based on exterior info rather than subjective aspects. Subjective: as soon as people observe an event, interpretation becomes subjective. Alternate-forms reliability: different forms of same test produce same result. Ecological validity: results of lab study can be repeated in natural environment. Hawthorne effect (behaviour result of being directly observed) Demand characteristics (inadvertent cues given by experimenter)