PSY 1101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sensorineural Hearing Loss, Color Vision, Red

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Locke: mind is a blank slate, info must be acquired/learned. Francis bacon: founder of modern science, science based on experiments and experience. Psychology and schools: psych is born, before 300 b. c. , aristotle theorized about learning and memory, structuralism, how the mind is structured. Critical thinking (smart thinking: hindsight bias, tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it (i-knew-it- all-along phenomenon) Scientific attitude: being skeptical but not cynical, open minded but not gullible. Steps: observe universe, define the problem, search literature, development of theory, form a hypothesis, design study, data collection, analyze results. Interpret results: theory, explains through integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviours or events, hypotheses, testable predictions implied by theory, operational definition. Statement of the procedures used to define research variables. Standard deviation: a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score. Indicates the likelihood that a result will happen by chance.