Because of its ability to determine cause-and-effect relationships, the laboratory experiment is traditionally considered the method of choice for psychological science. One downside, however, is that as it carefully controls conditions and their effects, it can yield findings that are out of touch with reality and have limited use when trying to understand real-world behavior.

This module highlights the importance of also conducting research outside the psychology laboratory, within participants’ natural, everyday environments, and reviews existing methodologies for studying daily life

Learning Objectives

- Identify limitations of the traditional laboratory experiment.

- Explain ways in which daily life research can further psychological science.

- Know what methods exist for conducting psychological research in the real world

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Psychologists test research questions using a variety of methods. Most research relies on either correlations or experiments. With correlations, researchers measure variables as they naturally occur in people and compute the degree to which two variables go together.

With experiments, researchers actively make changes in one variable and watch for changes in another variable. Experiments allow researchers to make causal inferences. Other types of methods include longitudinal and quasi-experimental designs. Many factors, including practical constraints, determine the type of methods researchers use. Often researchers survey people even though it would be better, but more expensive and time consuming, to track them longitudinally.

Learning Objectives

- Articulate the difference between correlational and experimental designs.

- Understand how to interpret correlations. Understand how experiments help us to infer causality.

- Understand how surveys relate to correlational and experimental research. Explain what a longitudinal study is.

- List a strength and weakness of different research designs.

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As our society increasingly calls for evidence-based decision making, it is important to consider how and when we can draw valid inferences from data. This module will use four recent research studies to highlight key elements of a statistical investigation.

Learning Objectives:

- Define basic elements of a statistical investigation. Describe the role of p-values and confidence intervals in statistical inference.

- Describe the role of random sampling in generalizing conclusions from a sample to a population.

- Describe the role of random assignment in drawing cause-and-effect conclusions.

- Critique statistical studies.

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This module provides an introduction and overview of the historical development of the science and practice of psychology in America. Ever-increasing specialization within the field often makes it difficult to discern the common roots from which the field of psychology has evolved.

By exploring this shared past, students will be better able to understand how psychology has developed into the discipline we know today.

Learning Objectives

- Describe the precursors to the establishment of the science of psychology. Identify key individuals and events in the history of American psychology.

- Describe the rise of professional psychology in America.

- Develop a basic understanding of the processes of scientific development and change. Recognize the role of women and people of colour in the history of American psychology.

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We are bombarded every day with claims about how the world works, claims that have a direct impact on how we think about and solve problems in society and our personal lives. This module explores important considerations for evaluating the trustworthiness of such claims by contrasting between scientific thinking and everyday observations (also known as “anecdotal evidence”).

Learning Objectives

- Compare and contrast conclusions based on scientific and everyday inductive reasoning.

- Understand why scientific conclusions and theories are trustworthy, even if they are not able to be proven.

- Articulate what it means to think like a psychological scientist, considering qualities of good scientific explanations and theories.

- Discuss science as a social activity, comparing and contrasting facts and values.

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Is fear creating a set-back in reaching your goals, dreams and intentions? In today's episode Diane gives you insight to what she does for a little brain boost to reach the next level.

Attitude of mind is in your control. Do not underestimate your own abilities - you are free to choose to challenge yourself - every step of the way to succeed.

From this moment forward, choose your future - make a plan and be prepared to reject negative feelings.

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Inspired by the best-selling book by Maxwell Maltz, I share an easy to remember picture of the successful personality. Just remember the word Success. The success-type personality is composed of:

Sense of direction

Understanding

Courage

Compassion

Esteem

Self-Confidence

Self-Acceptance

You must have courage everyday to risk making mistakes, risk failure, risk being humiliated. A step in the wrong direction is better than staying in the same place all your life. Once you are moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Bet on yourself and take a chance on your own create potential.

You deserve to live an inspired life! Diane

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Scientific research has been one of the great drivers of progress in human history, and the dramatic changes we have seen during the past century are due primarily to scientific findings—modern medicine, electronics, automobiles and jets, birth control, and a host of other helpful inventions. Psychologists believe that scientific methods can be used in the behavioral domain to understand and improve the world. Although psychology trails the biological and physical sciences in terms of progress, we are optimistic based on discoveries to date that scientific psychology will make many important discoveries that can benefit humanity. This module outlines the characteristics of the science, and the promises it holds for understanding behavior. The ethics that guide psychological research are briefly described. It concludes with the reasons you should learn about scientific psychology.

• Describe how scientific research has changed the world.

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The journey has begun.  Join me as I navigate through the Psychology -100 Course at Queens University, on-line course.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe factors that impact adjustment to post-secondary education, and that predict success.

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You are going to love this! As part of my journey in understanding the world of psychology I came across a paper written in 1956 which explains why we remember certain things like phone numbers and identification numbers that are grouped in sevens, plus or minus two. Then we go on the journey of noticing the number 7 throughout history and in everyday occurrences. There is psychology behind the number 7 that not only will attract your attention, but help you in learning.

In his paper, George Miller says: "I shall begin my case history by telling you about some experiments that tested how accurately people can assign numbers to the magnitudes of various aspects of a stimulus. In the traditional language of psychology these would be called experiments in absolute judgment. Historical accident, however, has decreed that they should have another name. We now call them experiments on the capacity of people to transmit information. Since these experiments would not have been done without the appearance of information theory on the psychological scene, and since the results are analyzed in terms of the concepts of information theory, I shall have to preface my discussion with a few remarks about this theory. "

Sounds like too much information? Well the paper ends with the exciting revelation that since the beginning of time, the number 7 has been magic, plus or minus two.

"And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week? What about the seven-point rating scale, the seven categories for absolute judgment, the seven objects in the span of attention, and the seven digits in the span of immediate memory? For the present I propose to withhold judgment. Perhaps there is something deep and profound behind all these sevens, something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean coincidence."

I give my own examples of the number 7 as seen through history in books and film. After I finished this episode I started thinking about the Seven pools on the Hawaiian island in Maui, and other places.

Share in the comments below where you have seen the number 7, plus or minus 2 throughout history and in everyday life. If you like the show, share it with someone you know that wants to live an inspired life!

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