01:830:377 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Major Depressive Disorder, Tobacco Smoking, Mortality Rate
20 Nov 2018
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If you don"t do an experiment, you don"t know the cause. Interpreting correlations: measure of the strength of the association between two variables (ranges from -1 to +1, never a perfect correlation unless you correlate a variable with itself, can"t get a perfect -1 or +1. 01/26: quasi-experimental design, main difference between experimental and quasi-experimental design: Individual difference variable: sgoutas-emch et al. , 1995, participants subjected to laboratory stressor (speech) Chd, and are 7x more likely to die from any cause (not just chd: barefoot et al. , 1983, hostility increased risk of all-cause morality, potential mechanisms, cardiovascular reactivity, powch and houston, 1996-hostility and stress. In high stress lab condition, conversations about passionate social issues, hostility predicted increased cardiovascular response to stress: biobehavorial mechanism, greater interpersonal conflict, lower levels of social support, health behaviors, appraisal. Just cardiac counseling (control group: 21. 2% had another heart attack, no counseling (comparison group, 28. 2% had another.
