PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Brenda Milner, Gustav Fechner, Roger Wolcott Sperry
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Identified that rewards and punishments influence behaviour, attempted to relate responses to stimuli: humanistic psychology (vs. Involves observing subjects" behaviours in their natural environment systematically while being as unbiased as possible: allows the study of behaviour under less artificial conditions but the observer"s presence may alter the subject"s behaviour. It is also difficult to interpret the observations numerically: case study, an in-depth investigation of an individual or group of individuals. A confounding of variables occurs when it is difficult to distinguish between the effects of two closely related variables: experiments are subjected to experimenter"s bias. This can be prevented by using random assignment and a double-blind procedure to ensure an equal and unbiased distribution of participants across all conditions. Statistics: descriptive statistics, central tendency, mean the average; sum of all values. Sum of (each score mean)2: standard deviation measure of how spread out the numbers are; var.
