PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Psychological Association, George Santayana, Informed Consent

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Caroline F Pukall

Document Summary

Reliability (week 1 = week 2, = week 3) Validity (are we measuring the correct thing?) Generalizability (is it true across people and groups) Theory: skydivers are not of sound mind. Definition: having the capacity to think reason and understand oneself. Operation definition: able to correctly answer questions that require simple mental operations and about when and where they are. Accepted definition: scoring 27+ on the mmse. Hypothesis: skydivers will always score below 27 on the mmse. George santayana skepticism, the chastity of the intellect . Albert played with white furry objects, then cymbals clashed behind his head. Scared of white furry things now, including santa. Revised: skydivers are less sound than other people: find skydivers, administer mmse, check for values below 27, dependent variable mmse, we had a score of 28: hypothesis rejected, 1. Find skydivers and non skydivers: administer mmse, compare scores, dependent variable is mmse, skydivers got lower score than controls.