PSY 120 Study Guide - Fall 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Sigmund Freud, Time, Muscle Tone
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Psychology: study of mind and behaviour, normal and abnormal, differences/similarities in living things. Hypotheisis should be capable of being confirmed or disconfirmed unfalsifiable example: freud research methods. Alternate forms: different on different versions? naturalistic observation: participants in natural environment laboratory observation: controlled lab setting. Systematic observation and recording of behavior without direct interference. Instruments and procedures used to measure and evaluate aspects of participants. 5% or less (p<0. 05) disseminate findings scientific journal: publish studies so scientists can keep abreast of each others work, throughout year, specialized audience chapter 2 textbook. Theory: organized system of assumptions and principles that purpots to explain specifid set of phenomena and interrelationships. Hypothesis: statement that attempts to predict or account for set of phenomena; specify relationships among events of variables and are empirically tested. Operational definition: precise definition of term in a hypothesis, which specifies the operations for observing and measuring process or phenomenon being defined.
