PSY 111- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 23 pages long!)

• School: Miami University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Daniel Kochli

Document Summary

Module 14 prenatal and newborn development: major issues, nature v. nurture, continuity v. stages, stability and change. Influences on identity: peers are very important during adolescence, parents are also highly influencial. Module 18 -- basic principles of sensations and principles: sensation: how sensory receptors and nervous system relieve and represents stimulus energies from envrionmennt, reception transformation/transduction transmission, transmit electrical neural impulse to brain. Important people: aristotle is credited with the start of psych but we"ve all been thinking, wilhem wundt, 1879 the first psych lab first experimental apparatus psychometrics studies mental processes, titchener, structuralism search for mind"s structural elements. Module 3 research strategies: scientific method process of testing, case studies: observing individual cases in hopes of revealing universal principles. Can be misleading if person is very atypical: naturalistic observation: unobtrusively observing behavior in naturally occurring settings without controlling the situation with out controlling the situation. Random sampling: data can often be presented in a misleading way.