PSYC1003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clinical Psychology, Random Assignment, Dependent And Independent Variables
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The correlational (or survey) method: the quasi-experimental method iv. Describe ! attempts to make patterns and links in relevant phenomena. Explain ! seeing something in relations to something else. Psychologists study a variety of human phenomena, including (but not limited to): How the brain encodes sense data, like light waves entering the eye, or sound waves entering the ears. How a perceiver interprets and responds to sensory input. How humans remember events in their lives and facts about the world. How people navigate the social world (how predict what people are going to do e. g. how to predict people were going to buy toilet paper when the coronia virus) How our thinking impacts on our health. How the structures of the brain and the things we learn can lead to criminal behaviour ! how this interact with structures in our brains/ why.
