[PSY 103] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (170 pages long)

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Nancy Franklin

Document Summary

Psychology scientific study of the behavior and the mental processes of individuals. Goals of psychology to describe, explain, predict and help control behavior. Structuralism emphasized the structure of the mind and behavior built from elemental sensations. Functionalism emphasized the purpose behind behavior. Theory organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon. Determinism all events physical, mental and behavioral are determined by specific casual factors that are potentially knowable. Standardization using uniform, consistent procedures in all phases of data collection. Independent variable the factor that is manipulated (cause) Dependent variable the factor that is measured (effect) Confounding variable a stimulus other than the variable that is explicitly i(cid:374)trodu(cid:272)ed, that (cid:272)a(cid:374) effe(cid:272)t a parti(cid:272)ipa(cid:374)t"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior the e(cid:454)peri(cid:373)e(cid:374)ter"s interpretation of the data is put at risk. Between-subjects design a research design in which different groups of participants are randomly assigned to experimental or control conditions. Within-subjects design a research design that uses each participant as his or her own design.