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Where is brocha’s area and what is it for?

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left frontal lobe
speech production (the interaction
between frontal, temporal, and motor areas responsible for speech production)
Problem with PRONOUNCIATION

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Where is the Weinicke’s area and what is it for?

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Left temporal lobe
understanding meaning of words (wrong CHOICE of words, pronounciation ok)

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What is a mental process?

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INTERNAL, COVERT process of our mind

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What is Scientific?

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precise and careful OBSERVATION
using Scientific method

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What is behaviour?

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all OVERT (evident and observable) actions and reactions

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What are the goals of psychology?

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describe
explain
predict
and control

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What is the weakness of descriptive study?

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no control of variables
case study is misleading

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What is the weakness of correlational study (2 or more variables)?

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cannot specify cause and effect

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What is the weakness of experimental study (manipulate IV to explore cause and effect)?

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sometimes not feasible
results might not be generalisable
not ethical to manipulate certain variables

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What is a descriptive statistic?

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Used to organise and summarise data (mean and SD)

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What is inferential statistics?

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Used to find out how meaningful the findings are
(Significance and confidence interval tests)

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