Intro to Psychology
- Personality test (we'll talk about the valid ones on Tuesday) from pig drawings; apparently, I am uptight and insecure because I included details on the body of my pig and I only gave him 2 feet instead of 4.
- Quiz on Tuesday (the following are from Professor Bendele's and my class notes, to help me study):
- Hypothesis: a prediction about specific behavior that is based on a theory
- Experimental group (Treatment): receives some treatment or manipulation in regard to the independent variable; a minimum of 2 groups are need (1. Control group & 2. Comparative group)
- Control group (Comparison group): receives no treatment or experimental manipulation (Ex.: Placebo given to members)
- Independent variable (Antecedent, input): a condition or event that an experimenter varies in order to see its impact on another variable; manipulated by the researcher
- Dependent variables (Consequent, output): the variable that is thought to be affect by manipulation of the independent variable (Ex.: Number, score, grades, reaction times received by person in an experiment.)
- Extraneous variable: those factors in an experiment that need to be minimized or eliminated so as not to affect the dependent variable
- Confounding variable: a variable that varies systematically with the independent variable (type off extraneous variable), thus making a causal link difficult to establish
- Correlation: not causation; assesses a relationship between variables that an experimenter has no control over
- See if two events regularly occur together
- Measures the degree of relationship between two variables
- Is all about prediction
- Simply measuring, not manipulating
- Directionality problem: difficulty in determining the direction in which the causality occurs between correlated variables
- Third Variable problem: an unmeasured third variable may exist that is the causal variable influencing the two variables that are measured
- Found out that yes, my new Asian friend, Joe, is Vietnamese! (I peeked at his name when the attendance sheet came around.) I knew he looked familiar from somewhere.
- Picked up photo CD from Stellhorn Photo
- Found job postings for Digital Media Assistant and Assistant Web Content Editor; went to Computer Lab, applied for the former via e-mail
- Ran out of time to eat
- Went to Linguistics class early to finish up homework
- Went over assignments from last class
- Listened to people pose ridiculous questions
- Stalked Cameron and his peanut butter sandwich with Emily
- Learned basic morphology for Malay/Indonesian and Persian ("Kuda ini bagus!")
- Ran into Ryan on the way to Walb for a late lunch
- Got full on a Crunchwrap Supreme and a weird-tasting Cherry Coke while reading up on Aristotle's rules for tragedy vs. comedy
- 3 choices for our individual presentations; mine:
- Le Tartuffe de Jean-Baptiste Molière (my favorite French author)
- Le mariage de Figaro
- Rhinocéros
- La Farce de maitre Pathelin
- Aristotle
Yeah, thanks for locking the top part of the door. I broke my key in it and now I can't get in. Call me back.I felt terrible, but luckily, his parents live a few blocks away from us.
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