Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wilhelm Wundt, Psych, Action Potential

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Give an aggression scale to people either before or after watching the violent or non- violent film. Aggression ratings are higher after the violent movie; aggression ratings are the same after the non-violent movie. It is a correlational study, and therefore we can not pull direct causation from the study. Saturday october 24th 2015, covers chapters 1-4 plus the appendix. Broad, general questions, do not try to memorize. Section 001, atkinson (answer this section: chapter 1: Areas of psychology + freud, wundt, skinner, piaget, pavlov, thorndike, watson, James, rogers, maslow (know them because these people have theories named after them; think of it from a theoretical perspective: chapter 2: Scientific method (how to conduct various parts of the experiment) Sampling (how do we acquire subjects for our studies?) Designing an experiment (independent vs dependent variables) Pitfalls in research, demand characteristics, double blind, etc. Ethics (i. e. debriefing, informed consent, etc: chapter 3: