PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Operational Definition, Informed Consent, Transverse Mode

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

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Psyc week 2 lecture research methods in. Brain scanners pick up patterns, things like actions & sports: yes = tennis, no = houses. Behaviourists wanted to show that people can adapt to certain behaviours & actions: little albert experiment. Begin every experiment with: safety (emotional, psychological, physical, mental, benefits outweigh risks, informed consent (surprises must be forewarned, no coercion, privacy (patient confidentiality, could harm career, ethics. Can this solution be trusted? (yes & no questions: reliability. Week 1: yes, week 2: yes, week 3: yes: validity. Tried only with alzheimer"s, assuming it"ll work on any other mental disorder. Theory test: theory: skydivers are not 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 why they are (no) Scoring 27+ on the mmse (yes: hypothesis: skydivers will always score below 27 on.