[PSY 102] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (21 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Niusha Ghazban

Document Summary

Psy102 - introduction to psychology - class 2: (research methods - safeguards against. Experiments: research ethics, evaluating the research results - statistics. Humans are famously capable of getting it wrong when we try to figure out how something works. Historically, subjective impressions have led to tragic results-(jenny stork case: autistic child. Started making claims to facilitator that she was being sexually abused by her father. Sexual abuse cases not particularly coming from jenny, but unintentionally coming from facilitators. ) Beaty, smell, texture, etc: data collection strategies: Case studies : provide in-depth background from a single person, or a few people. Often someone exceptional (rare) like a person with a great memory, or a serial killer, or someone who has experienced a rare event . Phineas gage (1848) - rod went through prefrontal cortex and he went from being calm and polite to being violent and angry. A classic example of a physical course for a psychological /behavioural/personalty effect.