PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Heritability, Egocentrism, Catecholamine
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L0101 mw 11-12 room 2072: what is the difference between a naturalistic study, a case study, and a survey? (5 marks) A survey is a group of questions distributed among a particular population, designed to answer some specific questions. None of these methods of research allow us to make causal inferences regarding relationships between variables: in the experiment done in class, where you the students were the participants, what were the independent and dependent variables? (4 marks) The independent variable was level of anxiety. The two conditions were 1. made to feel anxious by speech threat (experimental condition) and 2. the control condition. The dependent variable was the number of words generated on the word generation (or. Boggle ) task: what is the placebo effect? (3 marks) Philosophy and physiology: give an example of a study, real or hypothetical, conducted in the area of social psychology. (3 marks)
