PSYC 2600H Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Naturalistic Observation, Dancemania Speed

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600H
• Professor: Jeff Adams

Document Summary

Variable (characteristic of a person, place, thing that can change over time or from situations) Independent variable (the variable which is manipulated in an experiment) Dependent variable (the variable being measured which is affected by the independent variable) Functional relationship (relationship btwn changes in an independent variable & changes in a dependent variable) Overt beh. (beh. that has potential for being directly observed by another individual than the one performing it) Covert beh. (beh. that can be perceived only by the person performing it) (ex. Appetitive stimulus (an event that an organism will seek out) Aversive stimulus (an event that an organism will avoid) Establishing operation (procedure that affects the appetitiveness or aversiveness of a stimulus) Deprivation (prolonged absence of an event, which often increases the appetitiveness of the event) Satiation (prolonged exposure to an event, which often decreases the appetitiveness of the event) Temporal contiguity (the extent to which events occur close together in time)