Psych 100B- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
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Implement hidden observation to eliminate this disadvantage. Difficult to know to what extent observer reactivity affects behaviors. If brain damaged by some incident, study how behavior is affected depending. Learn which areas of brain are crucial to what behaviors. Try to cut out areas of brain controlling epilepsy: reduce seizures but also removed hippocampus/temporal lobe largely responsible for memory. Hm kept procedural memories, muscle memories (can change a tire) but not semantic memories (his own name, states/capitals, etc) Inability to apply results to other people/cases - one case cannot represent all others. Each case is unique and it"s unlikely that people would have the exact type of damage in the same area resulting in the same behavioral effects. Sometimes surveys are the only ways to get information. Solve by using random samples to represent population. Use descriptive data from 2 observational variables and find correlation if exists.
