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Key Terms
The Emerence Of Psychology As A Science
The Behaviourist approaches
The Cognitive approach
The Biological Approach
The Psychodynamic Approach
The Humansitic Approach
The nervous system
Neurons and Synaptic Transmission
The Endocrine System
The ‘fight or flight’ Response
Localisation of function in the brain
Hemispheric lateralisation
Split-brain research
Brain plasticity
Functional recovery
ways of studying the brain
biological rhythms
the effect of endogenous pacemakers and exogenous zeitgebers on the sleep/wake cycle
The experimental method
Operationalisation
types of experiment
Correlation analysis
Observations
Self-report methods
case studies
aims and hypotheses
experimental design
controlling extraneous variables
reliability
validity
ethics
selection of participants
the relationship between researchers and participants
types of data
primary and secondary data
descriptive statistics
presentation of quantitative data
characteristics of normal and skewed distributions
levels of measurement
inferential statistics
introduction to statistical testing
levels of significance and type 1/2 errors
