PHAR 100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cell Membrane, Central Tendency, Olfactory Mucosa

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Course: PHAR 100
• Professor: Jeanne Mulder

Document Summary

Psych review answers: psychology is linked with the ancient greeks and specifically socrates, plato, and aristotle. Rationalism is obtaining the truth by using reason and logic to explain human actions: structuralism is using our experiences to break down components into elemental constituents in order to analyze them. Many professions use aspects of psychology to help patients, athletes, and to diagnose problems or help to solve personal problems. Reliability refers to the characteristic of a measure that provides consistent and stable results. Generalizability refers to the degree to which one set of results applies to other situations, events, and individuals. A good experiment will be valid, reliable, and generalizable: there are two types of variables involved in experiments: An example of an experiment may be creating a gender-specific study group and a co-ed study group, then determining which group generally has the higher study scores after being given the same amount of time.