PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2,12.3: Confounding, Machiavellianism, Humanistic Psychology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Ennis Richard

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Emerging themes in psychology: when stressed, males generally produce a fight or flight response while females tend to seek out social support, later, mris became available and researchers scanned brains to learn more about neuroscience and psychology. Principles of scientific research: 5 characteristics of quality research, based on objective, reliable and valid measurements within a margin of error is consistent across instruments and observers, ex. Weight is measured in kg or lb and is the same anywhere and measured by anything: operational definitions: statements that describe the procedures or operations and specific measures that are used to record observations. They have to not give demand characteristics inadvertent cues given off by the experimenter about the context of the experiment. An example of demand characteristics is when a group of students were told that they were exceptional learners and they ended up doing better on tests: techniques to reduce bias. Participants knowing what the info is used o.