PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: External Variable, Confounding, Studbook Selection
22 Jan 2018
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Unit 2: conducting an experiment: anecdotal evidence is insufficient to draw scientific conclusions, experiment: used to measure effect of one variable on another, dependent: scientist observes. Unit 5: conducting an experiment: placebo effect: effect that occurs when an individual exhibits a response to a treatment that has no related therapeutic effect. Mode is the only one that can be used to determine non-numerical data sets: measures of variability tell us how spread out data is, smaller spread = smaller standard deviation, larger spread = larger standard deviation. Module 3: classical conditioning: classical conditioning: association of two related events or the learning of a contingency between a particular signal and later even that are paired in time/space. As long as the cue for us continues to be reliable. But if conditions change (e. g. cs is no longer a reliable cue) than the.
