PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psych, Dependent And Independent Variables, Classical Conditioning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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Correlational study: research design intended to discover whether a statistical relationship between variables exists, both in direction and in magnitude. Experiment allows us to manipulate variables cause and effect. If experiments can be repeated and you get the same results, it gives it more weight. Does exposure to second hand smoke affect children"s cognitive development. Yes for correlation because you already have the groups to compare. Does watching violent tv programming make children behave more aggressively. Randomly assignment, because they will vary in their tv. diet. Formulate hypothesis: dependent variable, independent variable: Data collection: what data will be collect, who will collect it (blind condition), how will it be collected. Four main goals of health psyc health promotion and maintenance, prevention and treatment of illness, etiology and correlates of health illness and dysfunction, Cause: crises, important life events, daily hassles. See lazarus and folkman"s two stage process of cognitive appraisal: personalities affect this ( type a or b)