LSP 101/05 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY TUTOR-MARKED ASSIGNMENT 1 GUIDE PART A TASK: 1. To read and understand the research article by Thang‚ Ting‚ and Nurjanah Mohd Jaafar (2011‚ 40-54) entitled ‘Attitudes and Motivation of Malaysian Secondary Students towards learning English as a second Language: A Case Study’ published in The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies Vol. 17 No.1 2. To write a summary of the article as instructed by the TMA question. | OBJECTIVES | 1. To
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An experiment to investigate the effect of leading questions on memory. UFP: Business Administration Psychology Coursework Abstract This study was a replication of Loftus and Palmer (1974). The aim was to find out whether or not participants who had watched a video clip of a train crush would make different estimates of the speed the trains where travelling according to the question they were asked . This experiment was a laboratory experiment and independent measure
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PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is derived from the Greek words Psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To Greeks‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology as the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Scientific because it uses the steps in a scientific method in its quest to understand why a person behaves in a certain manner. It is systematic and empirical and it is dependent upon measurements. Psychologists - study human issues that begin before birth and continue
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Psychology Chapter One Psychology started as a speculation and has evolved into science over years. . It was born as an independent discipline. The discovery began in 1870 by a small number of scholars. The founders are disciplines of philosophy and physiology which share an interest in the mysteries of the mind. In 1832- 1920 Wilhelm Wundt changed the view‚ he created the first laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig Germany. He mounted a campaign to make psychology and independent discipline rather
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PSY 2237 Online Unit 3 Observation Study For my observation study‚ I asked my cousin‚ Grace‚ if it would be alright with her to observe her oldest child. For the purposes of this paper‚ I will call her Jamie. Jamie is 17 years old‚ and will be entering her senior year of high school in the fall. Both of her parents have full-time jobs; her father is a salesman and her mother works as a manager at a hardware store. Economically‚ they do very well. The household
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PSY 101 - Introductory Psychology San Diego State University Fall Semester 2014 – TTH 8:00 Section Instructor:Mark A. Laumakis‚ Ph.D. (pronounced la-may-kiss) Office: Life Sciences North 109 (I am only there on Thursdays from 11 a.m. until 12 noon) Phone:(619) 594-1933 E-mail: mlaumakis@mail.sdsu.eduOffice Hours: Tuesday (online) and Thursday (in Life Sciences North 109) 11 a.m. – 12 noon Class Time/Location:Tuesday: online in Blackboard Collaborate / Thursday 8:00-9:15 a.m. in AL-201 NOTE:
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participants‚ deception‚ confidentiality‚ withdrawal from an investigation and to mention only a few. The purpose of this essay is to clearly evaluate how these ethical issues mentioned above are important in research and giving valid examples using case studies where researches with ethical issues were conducted. Zechmeister (2012)‚ suggest that ethics are important in research because when informed consent have been done which is giving much information as possible to the participants‚ the participants
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making a Type II error. Hence‚ it is suggested that an alpha level of .05 is a good compromise between the likelihoods of making Type I and Type II errors. An experiment where you may want a lower alpha level (e.g.‚ 0.01) would be for example a drug study for coagulation times. You would want to be certain the drug is effective‚ therefore a lower alpha level would be prudent.
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Determining the concentration of red dye #40 in an unknown solution Introduction: White light is composed of many different wavelengths of light combined together. A spectrophotometer is an instrument that shines a single wavelength of light of a known intensity into a solution and then measures the intensity of the light exiting the solution. If a solution contains
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PSYCH Chapter One: Psychology and Scientific Thinking What is Psychology? Psychology is the scientific study of the mind‚ brain‚ and behavior. As a discipline‚ psychology spans many levels of analysis. Biological social influences Attachment Need to examine ALL of them: genetic/neurochemical/physiological and mental/behavioral/social level Depression at differing levels of Explanation Molecular level>Neurochemical>Neurological/physiological>Mental>Behavioral>Social Challenging
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