Posted Psychology: 5 Years to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
The concepts that I believe I am most likely to remember from psychology are the six principals of scientific thinking. These include ruling out rival hypothesis, correlation vs causation, falsifiability, replicability, extraordinary claims, and Occam's razor. I feel this way...
Posted Classical Conditioning In Everyday Life to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
Classical conditioning is a pretty basic principal in psychology. The best way to explain it is with the example from Ivan Pavlov expirament (shown in image above) using a metronome, meat powder, and dogs. Basically classical conditioning is comprised of...
Posted Pinocchio Response to Psy 1001 Section 04-05 Spring 2012
In reading chapter eleven I thought one of the more interesting sections was the one dealing with the Pinocchio response, and polygraph testing. The Pinocchio response is defined as a perfect psysiological or behavioral indicator of lying. I was...