PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Therapy, Attribution Bias, Sampling Bias

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Theoretical perspectives in psychology - theories of causes of behaviour. Psychology research methods: biological, how psychology affects thoughts and behaviour (neurons in cortex define behaviour, role of genetics/dna in behaviour) * all of these contribute to the problem of depression: research methods. Depression: experimental studies, most powerful method to detect cause & effect relationships. Goals of scientific enterprise: measurement and description develop measurement techniques that make it possible to describe behaviour clearly and precisely, understanding and prediction understand an event by explaining the reason for it through hypothesis. Hypothesis = tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables. Variables = measurable conditions, events, characteristics, or behaviours that are controlled or observed in a study: application and control apply research findings to practical problems. Theory = a system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations. Operational definition = describes the actions or operations that will be used to measure or control a variable.