PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psychology 2000 Note
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Correlations: what is the strongest difference between variable a & b. => how to measure swag? wearing nice clothes, society coming up with the def, psychologists have to classify these def (anxiety, depression, love, subjective define: ex: how much does financial incentive influence our persistence, experimental & control groups. Experimental group: + subjs in an exp who are subjected to the iv: those who were told they would get for getting to. 1,000 points: promise of money is the iv. Person who assigns groups and participants do not know what group each person is assigned to. This chapter is important to psychology because most psychological disorders treated through alternation of neurochemicals. An overview of the nervous system: the central nervous system = the central processing unit . Nervous system: network of specialized cells that carry info throughout the body. Neuroscience: examines the rela between the nervous system and behavior/learning. Damage to the central nervous system, neuroplasticity, and neurogenesis.
