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[PSYC] 140 - Exam #1ABC triad - ✅✅ -Affection (feel)
Behavior (action)
Cognition (think)
Behaviorism - ✅✅ -Explain all psychological in terms of learning principles
such as reward and punishment
Freudian psychoanalysis - ✅✅ -Focus in elaborate interpretation of
individuals experience (Deep subconscious)
Levels of analysis of related social science disciplines - ✅✅-_Anthropology
_Economics
_History
_Political Sciences
_Sociology
_Social Psychology
Anthropology > Political Science > Sociology
Anthropology - ✅✅ -Study about human culture (shared values, beliefs, and
practices) -> Larger group of people
Economics - ✅✅ -Study of production, distribution, and consumption of
goods and service
-> Some social psychology based on economic principles (ex: commitment in
relationship)
History - ✅✅ -Study of past events. Society progressed when members can
avoid repeating the same mistakes others have made.
, Political Science - ✅✅ -Study of political organizations and institutions,
especially governments.
-> Social psychologist conducts research on political behaviors (ex: voting,
party identification, political advertising, etc.)
Sociology - ✅✅-Study of human societies, the groups that form those
societies.
-> Large unit
Personality Psychology - ✅✅ -Focuses on important differences between
individuals, as well as inner processes
Social Psychology - ✅✅ -Study of how people mutually affect each other.
Start from inside the individual and work outward -> focus on the power of
situation
Social Psych vs. Personality Psych - ✅✅ -_Personality psychologists looked
inside the person, whereas social psychologists looked outside the situation.
=> Complementary; Both research on the unit of an individual
>< Is it more important to understand the person or the situation
Correlation vs Experimentation (issues of "confounds") - ✅✅ -_Correlation:
Link or connection, no cause and effect; Cannot randomly assign participants
or control variables; merely observes whether things associate.
_Experimentation: Researchers control over the procedure; participants are
randomly assigned to the levels of IV
_Confound: usually un-observable; when the effects of two variables cannot
be separated; third variable problem
✅✅-The statistical relationship r: -1 - +1
Correlation coefficient -
Basic vs Applied Research - ✅✅-Basic research: Research to enhance the
knowledge in general
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