PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Twin, Heritability, Monoamine Oxidase A

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Not part of hypothesis, but may alter results in some way: random sample is not critical; deals with the people chosen to be part of experiment. Random assignment deals with the people already involve/ picked to be experiment: a sample represents the larger population of whom we want to make claims of concering out experiment, psychological research based on weird (western. More work done to collect data from outside these individuals involed in. Quasi-experiments: on surface, appear as "real" experiments, lacking the random assignment. Comparing 2 different schools that start at different times (random). There is certainly confounds such as neighbourhoods, economic backgrounds, teacher abilities. 2 different things, but this lack of condition can result in poor results. Biological foundations of behaviour: pillar #1: the "jim twins" were sperated, adopted seperately and have same names, but different last names. Met when 30, both divorced from linda and married.