Psycology: Chapter 1
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- Psychology
- Science of behavior and mental processes.
- What teaches us the importance of asking good questions?
- Case of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the fairies.
- Bias
- Beliefs that interfere with objectivity.
- Law of Parsimony
- Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones.
- Placebo Effect
- Positive effects associated with a person’s belief and attitude about the drug, even when there is no active ingredient.
- Scientific Method
- Scientific investigation where a person makes an observation, proposes a theory, makes an hypothesis, and tests the hypothesis.
- Piage
- Studied the cognative development in children.
- Case Study
- In depth analysis of one person.
- Naturalistic Observation
- Study of behavior in its natural setting with no attempt to alter it.
- Freud
- Used case studies, had a therapy office, patients with conversion disorders.
- Assimilate
- Categories that exist in the mind.
- Accomodation
- Alter the idea of what you know to fit new information.
- Correlation Research
- Research that investigates the relationship between 2 people.
- Scatterplot
- Graph that illustrates the relationship between 2 people.
- Correlation Coefficient
- Number between +1 and -1 that represents the degree and direction of relationship 2 variables.