PSY 101 Review Sheet #1 Chapters 1-3 1. What does psychology study? Psychology is the scientific study of behaviors and mental processes. Behaviors include all outward or overt actions and reactions‚ mental processes include all internal covert activities of the mind. The goals of psychology are to describe‚ explain‚ predict‚ and control the behaviors and mental process of both human and animals. 2. Explain Structuralism. Structuralism is the study of the structure of the mind. It’s based
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Baby Got Vax In recent years‚ vaccines have become a hot button topic amongst parents. With Internet research becoming easier to access‚ coupled with studies showing an alleged correlation between vaccines and autism‚ it is easy to see how parents‚ neighborhoods‚ and even entire communities could become concerned about vaccines. The apparent surge in holistic treatments across America could potentially correlate with the decline in vaccinations‚ but why does it seem like the majority of “Anti-Vaxxers”
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completion of the study. Explain what a correlation is and its mathematical representation. A correlation exists when 2 variables are related to each other. May be positive or negative depends on nature of the association between the variables measured. Correlation indicates the 2 variables that change together in the opposite direction. Strength of correlation depends on size of coefficient. Be very clear about the difference between correlation and causation. What is responsible for carrying information
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differ. There is no research on the effects of life-satisfaction on productivity but there is a lot of research on the link between job satisfaction and work performance. This research shows modestly positive correlations with productivity‚ absenteeism and labour turnover. These correlations tend to be stronger among white collar workers. It is still largely unclear to what extent satisfaction effects productivity or vice versa. See Scheme 1. There are different claims about the effect of happiness
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neuroscience sometimes makes strange statements about the unconscious based on faulty evidence. Brain imaging commits assumptions and its results should be taken with a grain of salt‚ as there have been false positives and its studies showed correlation instead of causation. This study‚ the lectures‚ and readings showed me the importance of correcting data to avoid false positives‚ the misconception of brain mapping‚ and the problems with brain
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improve practice. This presupposes a cause/effect relationship between behavior and outcome; however‚ this method will ONLY let you hypothesize about variables and describe them. When you move to show correlation among them‚ you’re doing quantitative work. But remember‚ correlation does not mean causation. Longitudinal studies are data sources that contain observations of the same research units over a period of time. Such data can be collected either through surveys‚ or through linkage of administrative
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decision making‚ where ownership and management are clearly separated. This review of evidence will examine the advantages and limitations of Baumols theory on sales-maximisation. The majority of empirical evidence shows that there little correlation between the remuneration of top managers and the profit performance of their companys‚ instead sale revenue is seen as the major contributor to the salaries of managers. McGuire et al. (1962) tried to test Baumols contention that managers salaries
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LECTURE OUTLINE HISTORY & INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY I. BP = BEFORE "PSYCHOLOGY" A. SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS ABOUT MANKIND B. RELATIVELY EARLY ANSWERS II. THE "NEW" DISCIPLINE: 130+ YEARS OF PARADIGM SHIFTS A. STRUCTURALISM: WUNDT (1879) & HALL (1883) B. FUNCTIONALISM: JAMES (1890) C. THE PSYCHOANALYTIC VIEW: unconscious processes‚ basic drives FREUD (1914) & ERIKSON (1950) D. THE BEHAVIORIST VIEW: past learning‚ rewards & punishments PAVLOV (1905)
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Vaccinations have been a controversial topic since the development of the smallpox vaccine in 1796. There are continuous disagreements over the administration of vaccines despite scientific evidence of its’ capabilities. Proponents of this method have proved through experimental trials that the chance for contracting specific pathogens are decreased tremendously through vaccinations. While this is shown to be true‚ opponents of the medical practice react negatively to the implementation of vaccines
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standard normal distribution. 10. TRUE The law of large numbers states that if X1 ‚ X2 ‚ . . . ‚ Xn are independent‚ identically distributed random variables with mean µ‚ then ¯ plim Xn = µ 2 Multiple Choice Questions (a) ceteris paribus (b) correlation (c) causal effect (d) independence (20 points) 11. The idea of holding “all else equal” is known as 12. If our dataset has one observation for every state for the year 2000‚ then our dataset is (a) cross-sectional data (b) pooled cross-sectional
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