PSYC 215- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 147 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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Emotional contagion the tendency to converge emotionally with another. Research: measurement of what we"re interested in . 0 (rarely) - 1 (some of the time) - 2 (occasionally) - 3 (most of the time) I felt that i was just as good as other people. : correlational research: Correlations two things that tend to go together. Positive correlation (0 ~ +1. 00): strength of number relates to how well two things go together. Negative correlation (-1. 00 ~ 0): relationship between two variables in which one variable increases as the other decreases; inverse relationship. Examples: height + weight positively correlated, height + iq not correlated, days absent from school + school grades negatively correlated. Research moderately positive correlation between friendship closeness + mood similarity. Ambiguities in correlational findings: research finding: children with erratic eye movement while reading did not understand the content read. Educators built machines that would help children gain muscles to control their eyes better did not help .
