Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Prostatitis, Tamoxifen, Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

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Use theory for understanding, prediction and control. Theory is a value (positive, negative or neutral) Descriptive sex research how many sexual partner have you had? : no clear single best answer to collect sex research, physiological measures measure the brain. Monica moore went to singles bars and watched behaviors that women used that seemed to attract specific men into their orbit: type i glance (finding washroom or a clock, type ii glance, type iii glance. Descriptive sex research taking a photograph of what is going on. Correlational sex research: male attractive behaviors increased shortly at the end of the last call at the bar, time and a single bar has a correlation. Experimental sex research focused on cause and effect: essential to randomize participants in conditions, randomly assign participants to set everyone equal and not biased, experiments tell us whether a can cause b.