PSYC 2P30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jargon, Watergate Scandal, Alf Landon
17 Sep 2015
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Psyc 2p30 research methods and writing: students often assume this is bad, each essay is assumed to be worth 100% until proven otherwise, students then lose marks for any imperfections, errors, omissions c. In social situation: we talked last week but this week we talk again -> remembering the conversation differently (influenced by the latest meeting) b. In writing: be clear, concrete, assume reader doesn"t know jargon or my logic: work from an outline d. Syrian refugee in europe: why: translate into testable hypotheses (eg groups compete for distinct identities. ; r=0. 64; it might be possible there is another variable that could explain that relationship for example: hot weather: lepp et al. (2015, results: greater cell phone use predicts actual grades (gpa) (r=-0. 23, p<0. 001) They statistically controlled for actual high school gpa, effectively ruling out this possibility: non experimental methods, surveys, select representative sample, ask for opinions or behaviours, convenient (eg,.
