PSYC 201- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Variables aspects of testing condition that can change or take on different characteristics with different conditions: reduce phenomena to variables focus on specific events. Dependent variable measure of subject"s behaviour that reflects the effects of independent variable: response made my subject. Frequency number of times that a behaviour is performed. Rate number of times that a behaviour is performed relative to time. Duration amount of time that a behaviour lasts. Latency amount of time between an instruction & when the behaviour is actually performed. Topography shape or style of the behaviour. Force intensity or strength of a behaviour. Locus where the behaviour occurs in the environment. Independent variable condition that is manipulated or selected by the experimenter to determine effect of behaviour: cause some change to the value of independent variable. In stimulus response independent variable is the stimulus, dependent variable is response stimulus equivalent to cause.
