Psy1000 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the psychological experiment? • Advantages: identifies causal relationships, there is an ability to manipulate variables, experiments can be controlled • Disadvantages: Non-manipulated variables aren’t tested, results are acquired in an artificial environment, inadequate methods of enquiry What are the different research settings in which experimental research is conducted, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each setting? • F...

All of the psychoactive drugs and how it effects the brain

2. Summary The basic question in this study seeks to analyze whether any facial expression of emotion is universal for a human being or specific to different cultures. It was argued that facial behaviors were associated with emotion. According to Birdwhistell (1963), there was no possibility of universal facial behaviors. However, Ekman (1968) came up with distinguishing factors of facial behavior elements that are universal and those that are for individual cultures. They found that universal ...

1. Citation Langer, E. J., & Rodin, J. (January 01, 1976). The effects of choice and enhanced personal responsibility for the aged: a field experiment in an institutional setting. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34, 2, 191-8 2. Summary The basic question in this study was whether choice and personal control enhanced personal responsibility for the aged. It was found out that to sustain personal control in old age was influenced by societal factors and it could affect the physi...

2. Summary The basic question in this study was whether love has been stolen from the child and infant and made the exclusive property of the adolescent and adult, and if so to what degree. It’s a vital question because love response is first exhibited by infants to their mothers. Through child-mother intimacy, multiple affectionate responses are formed. Unfortunately, less is known about the variables underlying the formation of affection response and mechanisms through which the child’s ...

Psy10005 assignment 1 Critical review

This a complete semester for every lecture in class and it has all the information for the final as well

Chapters 5,6,7