DSC1630 Assignment
What is a case study? - ANS-study of one individual in great detail
What is a survey? - ANS-a measure of people's self-reported attitudes and
behaviors
What is epidemiology? - ANS-The study of the distribution of illnesses in a
population
What is a random sample? - ANS-a...
What is a case study? - ANS-study of one individual in great detail
What is a survey? - ANS-a measure of people's self-reported attitudes and
behaviors
What is epidemiology? - ANS-The study of the distribution of illnesses in a
population
What is a random sample? - ANS-a sample that fairly represents a population
because each member has an equal chance of inclusion
What is naturalistic observation? - ANS-observing and recording behavior in
naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the
situation
What is an ethogram? - ANS-A grid predetermined behaviors to watch for
when collecting data during naturalistic observation
What is correlation? - ANS-A statistical measure of the extent to which two
variables are associated.
What is a scatterplot? - ANS-A graph in which paired scores (X, Y) for many
participants are plotted as single points to reveal the direction and strength of
their correlation
What is an experiment? - ANS-A type of research in which the investigator
varies some factors, keeps others constant, and measures the effects on
randomly assigned participants
What is an independent variable? - ANS-Any variable that the researcher
manipulated in an experiment (the proposed cause).
Variable you CHANGE
,What is a dependent variable? - ANS-A variable that is being measured in an
experiment (the proposed effect)
Variable you MEASURE
, Psychology - ANS-the scientific study of behavior and the mind, and its
biological bases
Who are the original "founders" of philosophy? - ANS-Socrates, Plato, and
Aristotle
What did the original philosophers discuss? - ANS-Pleasure and pain, the
senses, imagination, desire, and aspects of psyche
Who were the original physicians? - ANS-Hippocrates and Galen
What did the original physicians discuss? - ANS-Importance of the brain and
psychological disorders as well as temperaments of personality
Dualism - ANS-the assumption that mind and body are two distinct entities
that interact
Who founded dualism? - ANS-Rene Descartes
Monism - ANS-the assumption that mind and body are different aspects of
the same thing
What is physiology? - ANS-Study of living organisms
What did Hermann von Helmholtz study? - ANS-Sensory receptors in the eye
and ear and investigated topics such as speed of neural impulses, color
vision, and space perception
What is Psychophysics? - ANS-The study of the relationship between physical
stimuli and out subjective sensations of those stimuli
Who is and what did Emil Kraepelin do? - ANS--A German psychiatrist who
likened mental disorders to physical illness and devised the first
comprehensive system for classifying the various disorders.
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