PSY 51200 Study Guide - Clinical Psychology, Dependent And Independent Variables, Unit
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**30 questions will come from unit 4 (ch 9/10, 11 and 13) ** 45 questions will come from the remaining 11 chapters in the class** Unit 1 (chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4): Understand the basic viewpoints of the various schools of thought in psychology (biological, learning, cognitive, socio/cultural, psychodynamic etc. ) Biological: how body affects behavior, thoughts, feelings. Learning/behaviorism: how environment/experience affects behaviors, thoughts, feelings. Humanistic: how to create a fulfilling life. Understanding and treating emotional problems, abnormal behavior. Understand how to interpret a correlation coefficient and determine pos/neg correlation. Coefficient- # that describes relationship (range: -1. 0 1. 0) Negative: (x<0) negative relationship, one goes up the other goes down; inverse relationship. Positive: (x>0) positive relationship, one goes up so does other, one down other down. Higher number, stronger correlation (not including sign [-0. 8 or 0. 5; -0,8 is stronger because 8>5]) Understand the experimental method and the terms associated with it (iv, dv etc. )
