PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Agonist, Pituitary Gland, Axon Terminal

• School: UTM
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100Y5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

Document Summary

Psychology: study of behaviour, anything an animal does, feels, thinks (psyche-soul, logos-to study: areas of research, social, groups, physiological, way brain works, cognitive/perception, personality/abnormal, mental disorders, developmental, how humans change, psychometrics, statistical analysis, health, meditation, forensics. Evolutionary psychology: examines behavioural process in terms of adaptive value. Data collection techniques: procedures for making empirical observations and. Positive psychology: uses theory/research to understand the positive aspects of measurements. Experimental group: subjects receive special treatment in regard to independent variable. Control group: similar subjects who do not receive special treatment given to experimental group. Extraneous variables: variables other than the iv that may influence dv. Confounding of variable: 2 variables linked in a way that makes it difficult to sort of specific effects. Naturalistic observation: carful observation of behaviour without intervening. Statistics: use of mathematics to organize, summarize and interpret numerical data. Variability: how much scores in a data set vary from each other and mean.