PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Object Permanence, Curare, Abstract Logic

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

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology: scientifically explores the ways we perceive, process and remember information. Natural selection: among the range of inherited trait variation, those contributing to reproduction and survival will pass to future generation to survive. Hindsight bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it. Culture: the enduring behaviours, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Informed consent: an ethical principle that research participants are told enough to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate. Descriptive methods: the observation variables x and y. Observing and gathering information to compile an in-depth study of one individual. Naturalistic observation: recording behaviour in the environment without control or manipulation. Random sampling- is how you get a pool of participants that represent the population you are trying to learn about. Negative correlation: as one number goes up, the other number goes down.