PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lobotomy, Facilitated Communication, Thalamus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: William Huggon

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Internal validity: extent to which we can draw cause-and-effect inferences from a study, low on this- can"t control the key variables our self. If not careful, case studies can lead to misleading, even disastrously wrong, conclusions. If studying one person with rate disorder, someone else with it can respond to treatment differently. Self-report measures and surveys: asking people about themselves and others: questionnaires used to assess a variety of characteristics, such as, personality traits, mental illnesses. Interests: random selection: the key to generalizability. Correlational designs: research design that examines the extent to which two variables are associated. 1. 0 = perfect negative correlation: +1. 0 = perfect positive correlation, the scatterplot, grouping of points on a two-dimensional graph in which each dot represents a single person"s data. All research labs have at least one research ethics board (reb: reviews all research carefully to protect participants.