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winzenz 2014 psych 364 “win as much as you can” and trustworthiness scale
found that we rate ourselves as more trustworthy even though our peers rated others as UNtrustworthy
corrigan, davies f, and stolley 1990; schizos and neuroticism
found that catatonic schizophrenics have lowest mean education and their neuroticism score was much higher than any other group compared (n=38)
anderson 1968 and 7 desirability traits
ordinal scale of traits found that sincere and honest peoples are much more desired than average, whilst narrowminded and selfish folk score far below average with inexperienced sitting at the average score
nominal
or name; refers to categorically discrete data. Such as name of school / type of car / name of book
ordinal
or order; quantities that have a natural ordering. Like the ranking of a favorite sport (1 through 5)
interval
ex: temperature
ratio
data with a 0 point like time or exam score
farquhar 1978 cardiovascular risk inventorytest
correlates personal score against the population
woods 2015 and costa / mcCrae (92) conscientiousness score
found that psych major students scored within in the same range as OCD patients; however, some pysch students deviate into the average with vegetarians
valins and ray (67) snake phobia
phobics when treated with lower heartbeats will move closer to snakes when under belief they are maintaining low heartbeat
forsyth and lawrence (06) control counseling / email counseling
email group had much larger variance with inconsistent scores while the control group consistently scored average. furthermore the email 1 group scored the highest out of every repeated measure
Day and Kasperczyk’s morinaga illusion (1984)
circles and angles perfectly aligned so any manipulation is incorrect. Ho:M,y=0 reject null (p
Letourneau 1976 claimed muller luer illusion depends on spatial training
testing architecture students it was found that the null is retained (p>.05) suggesting that his hypothesis is true suffering from type 2 error
Thase 2005 studied 18 women with severe depression, on SSRI’s like prozac
the placebo group reported significantly lesser scores of depression t(16)=3.35 p
andrew mosholder 2004 stated that SSRI’s are
lead to almost 50% more suicides amongst children
stanley zammit 2007 reported that cannabis is not as harmless as we once thought, it was found that
pot smokers are notably more likely to develop or experience psychotic depression
julia fox 2006 studied CBS and the Daily show to find what about college students?
it was found that the daily show actually contains slightly more informational content than did CBS news. t(9)=-1.87 NS
shiela kuehl womens rights advocate presented interesting and controversial data regarding?
that on NFL sunday more women are reported as being beaten than on a non NFL sunday and that on superbowl weekend vs average weekend more are reported to be abused on the average weekend
cash 2003 appearance schemas inventory
is a measure of psychological investment in our physical appearance (higher scores show more satisfaction)
it was found that males care significantly less than women about their appearance; more so, black males care more than white females
Horne and ostberg 1976 founded the owl and lark questionnaire which found that
most people are either moderate or neither type enabling them to adjust fairly easily to changes in work hours etc…
a quasi experiment (cause and effect) F(2,27;MSe=1.09)=36.58, p
borsari and carey 2005 randomly assigned 48 male students who received a university alcohol violation and it was found that
the type of counseling offered will elicit the most positive change.
when “brief motivational interview” was offered the students scored significantly less than the other counseling types (alcohol education second place with control treatment offering the worst results)
yeomans 2010 founded BPD (BorderlinePersonalityDisorder who do not read facial expressions as fast as we do also found that…
schizophrenics a
