PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Diminished Responsibility

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Russel Day

Document Summary

Psychological: psychodynamic, humanist, cognitive, how we think and our beliefs. Environmental: behavioural and social/cultural, reinforcement/punishment history. Think about how theories and research methods interact. Science: accurate measurement and description that everyone can agree on, understanding and predicting what"s next, application and control. Global approach: theory, a set of explanations used to explain a set of observations. Implicit theories: unaware we have this theory, but it exists: research hypothesis. Steps in the scientific process: notice something of interest, develop hypothesis (if/then statement) Animals in research the study benefitted them and others. Outcome is irrelevant to the ethics decision it should b decided before. Naturalistic observation: observing others (people watching, pros and cons, can be intrusive and will affect behaviour of people, no control over anything. Case study: studying a person with great depth. Surveys: tools, questionnaires and interviews (can be used in other. Random sampling generalizability approaches as well: pick people from the population.