[PSY 201] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (30 pages long!)
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Tuesday, sept. 27th: experimental-do research in order to understand behavior, applied-apply research results to solve real world problems, clinical-help people with emotional or behavioral problems such as depression/shyness. Conduct research on psychological disorders: counseling-help people deal with everyday problems, psychologist-ph. d, uses psychological perspective, psychiatrist-has m. d. , can prescribe drugs, uses medical perspective. Stages: encoding-information is translated into a mental representation&stored, storage-information held overtime, retrieval-stored information is brought back into conscious awareness. Experimental: depression test > behavioral therapy (1x week, 3 months) > Control: depression test > trained listener 1x week, 3 months > depression test. Informed consent ex) caffeine harms memory: random assignment to groups. 2: experimental group receives caffeinated coffee, control group gets decaf, both groups learn a list of words, both groups take a recall test, debrief group. Questionnaire/survey: series of questions or statements about a person"s behavior or opinions. Results are easy to tally/quantify and easy to administer. Naturalistic observation: observe people/animals in their natural environment.
