PSYC 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Rationality, Anal Retentiveness

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Chris Motz

Document Summary

We"re about to get started on the first domain of knowledge. 2 stuff, then we"ll get started on ch. 3 (dispositional domain: focus of dispositional domain: traits, rest of the course will feed off of this domain (connecting all other research back to traits, the modern approach. 3 fundamental questions that guide psychologists who study traits main point in. Could find that it is significant (meaningful difference between groups), or could find the results were out of chance (didn"t account for some other variable, etc. : need a certain sample size to get over individual differences could have. 20 people in the study: but it could be that you chose a biased sample. **more prone to getting wrong results with a small group the biased sample gets offset amongst a huge sample size: larger groups more confidence in the accuracy, but up to a certain point. There are statistical ways of figuring out what sample size you need.