PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Psychological Association, George Santayana, Parachuting

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Little albert presented him with a lot of little white fluffy objects and would clash objects together during the interaction, now he even fears santa clause. Ethics declaration of helsinki, canadian psychological association, ethics review boards. Skepticism, the chastity of the intellect - george santayana. Theory: skydivers are not sound of sound mind. Having the capacity to think, reason, and understand for oneself no. Able to correctly answer questions that require simple mental operations, and about where and when they are no. Hypothesis: skydivers will always score below 27 on mmse: find consenting skydivers at the skydiver club, administer the mmse, check for any values below 27. Dependent variable: mmse derived from the experiment. We had one skydiver who scored 28. Revised theory: skydivers are of less sound mind than other people. Independent variable inputs to the experiment (group: find consenting skydivers at the skydiver club, and non-skydiving psyc100 students, administer the mmse, compare mmse scored of the two groups.