PSYC 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Analytical Review, Analysis Of Variance, Type I And Type Ii Errors

• School: Emory University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Barber Jessica

Document Summary

Be able to define, apply, and provide examples of them. Psychological science (what makes it scientific, why it"s needed) Types of behavioral research (basic, applied, evaluation) Goals of behavioral research (description, prediction, explanation) Scientific approach (systematic empiricism, public verification, solvable problems) Behavioral research strategies (descriptive, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental) Measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode) Measures of variability (range, variance, standard deviation) Levels of measurement (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio; qualitative/categorical v. quantitative/continuous) Purpose of hypothesis testing (why do we have to estimate, sampling error) P-value (what it means, relation to alpha) Terminology (between v. within subjects, iv/predictor, dv/outcome, main effect, interaction) Profiles for the following analyses (i. e. , when you"d use them): chi square, t test, one-way anova, factorial. Be sure to read chapters 1, 2, 16, and 11 (relevant excerpts).