PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Null Hypothesis, Measuring Instrument, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
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All sections will write 14:00 on december 13th: sections a&t: field house (fh) Individuals research that we need to remember. (ex: ___"s research on ___). Eliminate chapter (but not slides) for single-subject research designs (ch. 14: i. e. , can be tested on material in slides but not anything that"s only contained within chapter. Intuitions: our initial responses to stimuli, situations, etc. Authority: taking, at face value, info from individual respected within social framework. Reason: with assumption of a set of premises ( facts"), using rules to determine what necessarily follows. Empiricism: using natural observation & controlled experiments to obtained data. Nativist/innate: ppl born w/ prepotent responses to stimuli due to our ancestors being exposed to stimuli, & surviving (natural selection: method of intution. Intuitive and scientific theories (marx, 1963): *flow chart in lecture slide* Observations vary in their degree of control. Constructs vary in degree to which we can specify relationship of an idea to observations.