Objectives By the end of this week you should be able to: * Define psychology. –Psychology can be defined as the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This means it is the science that looks to understand the things people do such as eat, walk, or talk, as well as the personal processes we go through such as feeling, thinking, dreaming, or remembering. * Identify the goals of psychology. There are 4 basic goals of psychology that are used to help understand behaviors and mental
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Dream Engineering Abhinav Shubham Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide May 14th, 2014 * Resist Loss not Change : support by social cognitive theory, correlation does not prove causation * Homeostasis or Allostasis to popularize resistance wrong approach. Homeostasis and allostasis reduces loss by changing function. * Burden of proof on changers * Organisation non-linear models, metastability., naturally change when significantly away from stable position: allostasis
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Individual Correlation Discussion BSHS/382 July 24, 2013 Vanessa Byrd Pearson product Moment is a method that is used often in order to compute any correlation between two variables showing a linear relationship. This could be used to look at how the consumption of carbohydrates plays a role in weight loss. The advantages of using this method are that an individual is able to make predictions when there is information on the correlation. When or if two variables are correlated then predictions
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Sociology assignment 1 1. In Sociology what is the difference between examining social life at the micro-level, macro-level, and global-level? Provide an example to illustrate how the three levels of analysis might apply to the same social phenomenon. In sociology social life is examined at three different levels, micro-level, macro-level, and global-level. The micro-level examines social dynamics of face-to-face interactions between people. The macro-level studies the larger scale dynamics of
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Chapter 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science Textbook: i. The Need for Psychological Science a) Did We Know It All Along? Hindsight Bias i. Hindsight bias = Something has happened makes it seem inevitable ii. Not because common sense is usually wrong, but because common sense more easily describes what has happened than what will happen b) Overconfidence iii. We tend to think we know more than we do c) The Scientific Attitude
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gets, their tolerance level gets lower causing a lot of stress, hypertension and sometimes if the person gets overweight they tend to take on the diabetes. Obesity can relate back to the atherosclerosis which then in turn flows down the list of causations. But if none of the above have occurred and are very healthy individual; then potentially there are other risk like having an accident or an infection that would lead to potentially having an infection in the aorta, disease that would cause severe
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in tests, problem solving, as well as solution valuations. All scientific thinking, which take part in an individual’s daily activities happen to be best enhanced using the six principles of scientific thinking. Such principles include: correlation vs. causation fallacy, ruling out rival hypothesis, falsifiability, extra ordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, reliability, and Occam’s razor. Extra ordinary claims This is a scientific thinking principal, which argues that extra ordinary
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the unemployment rate were to rise from one month to the next, this would be a direct signal that percentage of unemployed people in the country had grown within that month-long time span. In contrast, indirect signals are derived from the causation or correlation between two or more economic indicators. Put simply, indirect signals are used to conclude the movement of one indicator based on the movement of another. Keeping with the above example, an increase in the unemployment rate is typically
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Big Issues p. 9-14 wb 4-6 5 Skepticism, Common Sense, and Hindsight p. 14-24 vocab quiz; wb 6-9 6 Research Basics: Observations and Surveys p. 24-30 7 Research Basics: Correlation and Causation p. 30-34 vocab drill 8 Research Basics: The Experimental Method p. 37-40 vocab quiz; wb 19-21 9 Ethical standards and practices in Psychology p. 49-53 experiment analysis project
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Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner focuses on our economy and the study of incentives. The two authors discuss comparisons that seem so foreign such as “What do school teachers and sumo wrestlers have in common?” and “How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents?” Questions like these stir up the novel and essentially unravel the untold stories of life and consumption. Core economic principals are discovered within each story of the book. The title Freakonomics in
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