PSY270H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Change Blindness, Simon Effect, Gestalt Psychology
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One who adheres to the perspective in psychology that focuses on observable behaviors. Perspective in psychology that describes cognition according to the mechanisms of the brain. A research study that focuses on intensive analyses of a single individual or more broadly on a single observation unit. A research study that examines relationships between measured variables. The behavior that is measured in a research study. The principal that behaviors have underlying causes and that understanding involves identification of what these causes are and how they are related to the behavior of interest. A perspective in psychology that cognition serves for bodily interaction with the environment. The principal that the key to understanding new things is through systematic observation. A research study that examines causal relationships between variables. A factor in an experiment that is manipulated by the researcher (e. g. randomly assigning subjects to a group in the experiment) The principal of preferring simple explanations over more complex ones.
