PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Clinical Psychology, Attribution Bias, Psychometrics

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

Document Summary

Formal definition of psychology: scientific study of behavior. Psychologists study: how you act (overt/behavior, think (covert/mental), feel (covert/overt) & how your brain/body respond (covert/physiological). Psychologists apply accumulated body of knowledge to real-world problems. Culture of silence and psychopharmaceutical explosion on college campuses (academic pressure, adhd and ssris prescriptions) Careers in psychology: professional practice, clinical counselling: clinical psychologist (phd), psychiatrist (md), psychoanalysts (anything like freud, educational/school psychology: could work with teachers/students at school. Explaining depression using the vulnerability/view of each perspective: biological: genetic vulnerability; neurochemical imbalance in the brain, cognitive: attribution bias; how you explain things that go wrong (blame yourself) and. Don"t worry about dates & psychologist names, focus on key points listed in textbook. 3rd hidden variable can account for the relationship between 2 variables. Figure 2. 8 in textbook: magnitude of correlation = strength of relationship. Max 1, min -1: naturalistic observation, experimental studies: most powerful method to detect cause-and-effect relationships.