PSYS 100- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 38 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Psys 100 forbey mwf 1-1:50 pm. Critical multiples: approach of using many different methods in concert, surveys, laboratory experiments, real-world observations, etc. Basic and applied research: translating research findings into real-world applications, lime- yellow easier to detect yellow fire hydrants, additional visual information (especially closer to eye level) 3rd brake light, predict college achievement- act and sat. Popular psychology industry: the sprawling network of everyday sources of information about human behavior, self-help, about 3,500 self-help books are published each year and the. Psychology as a science: science is an approach to evidence, a toolbox of skills used to prevent us from fooling ourselves. In other words, evidence that suggests the hypothesis is wrong blindly accepted: evidence that suggests that the hypothesis is correct is greatly scrutinized. Reliability and validity: reliability, getting similar results under similar conditions and or at different times, validity, getting accurate results, or measuring what you are intending to measure.
