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Psych Methods Flashcards

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Scientific method

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  1. Formulate hypothesis
  2. Research method and design
  3. Collect data
  4. Analyze
  5. Publish
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Research methods

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Experiment
Case studies
Naturalistic behaviour
Surveys

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Descriptive/correlational research

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Cannot demostrare cause-effect relationship
Surveys
Naturalistic behaviour
Case studies

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Experiment

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Cause-effect relationship
Causation
Artificial

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Naturalistic observation

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Less artificial
Good when little know
Reactivity of subject to presence of observer

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Surveys

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Behaviours hard to observe

Sampling bias

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Case studies

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Real life illustrations

Subjective

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Mean

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Average

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Median

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Middle point

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Mode

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Most frequent score

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Frequency distribution

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Negatively- scores to high end

Positively- scores to low end

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Variability

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How much score varies from each other and mean

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Standard deviation

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Index of amount of variability

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Normal distribution

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How human characteristics are dispersed in a population

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Percentile score

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% of people who score at or below particular score

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Correlation

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Two variables related to each other

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Correlation coefficient

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Index of degree of relationship
Strength and direction
0 to -+ 1.0

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Inferential statistics

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Interpret and draw conclusions

Significance if less than 0.05 due to chance

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Meta analysis

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Several studies integrated

Duplication

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Method bias

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Tendency to use one method

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Placebo effect

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Feeling changes due to preconceived notions

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Halo effect

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Immediate prior experience changes mood and results

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Social desirability

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Want to seem socially acceptable

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Experimental bias

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Wanting to see what supports hypothesis

Use double blind to prevent

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Early psychologists

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Wundt- first psych lab

James- functionalism

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Origins of psych

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Philosophy

Mind-body dualism

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Contemporary approaches (7)

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Behavioural
Psychodynamic 
Humanist
Neuroscience
Cognitive 
Evolutionary
Sociocultural
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Behavioural

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Watson- behaviour
Pavlov- blank slates
Skinner- reinforcement and punishment

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Psychodynamic

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Freud: motives sexual or violent

Psychoanalysis

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Humanist

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Maslow: self actualización

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Neuroscience

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Olds: electrical stimulation
Sperry: left and right brain specialization
Hebb: neural networks

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Cognitive

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Piaget: child development
Bandura: environment influences us and vice versa

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Evolutionary

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Sociobiology

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Sociocultural

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Individual embedded into surroundings

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