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Psychology 110 - Exam 1 study guide 100%Solved | Verified & update Already Passed
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The next 4 slides are about descriptive research methods - ✔✔I don't know why I'm doing this
Naturalistic Observation - ✔✔more natural but problems with wait and observer bias
Laboratory Observation - ✔✔more control but more expressive, less like the real world
Case study - ✔✔great detail but problems with generalizability
Surverys - ✔✔lots of data from many respondents but can provide faulty info
Correlation studies - ✔✔-non-experiment therefore cannot determine cause-effect relationships -
coefficient indicates strength and direction of relationships between two variables
-good for topics that can't be manipulated
the experimental method - ✔✔-independent variables are manipulated
Quasi-experiments - ✔✔when random assignment is not possible
Participant related bias
, ethics in research - ✔✔i really don't know
Chapter 2 - ✔✔i want to sleep
what do EEG's measure? - ✔✔the electrical impulses in your brain
what are the three parts of a neuron? - ✔✔1. cell body or soma
2. dendrites
3. axon
how do neurons interact with each other? - ✔✔-communication is
synaptic -electrical impulses charges permeability
the effect of myelin - ✔✔-speeds up the message of the neuron
the central vs. peripheral nervous system - ✔✔central- brain/spinal
cord peripheral- somatic and automatic nervous system
the next 10 slides are about the different brain structures and their functions - ✔✔i dont know
if that is the correct form of their. English is my worst subject
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