PSYO 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Blind Experiment, Dependent And Independent Variables, Analysis Of Covariance

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYO 2000
• Professor: Simon Gadbois

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Honours degree the most prestigious undergraduate degree you could hope to get. You don"t need honours to go to medical school. For applying: you apply at the end of second year, apply beginning of 3rd year. Fill out an application form, you list the classes you have taken and the ones you take, a brief description of the things you want to do, and sign a contract. Require an a- average, or better, count back 6 classes. If you apply at end of 3rd year, you count back 9 psych classes, and you require an a- average. As mentioned earlier, extraneous confounded variables are a potential source of variability or systematic error. Random assignments of participants to treatment conditions. Building the extraneous variable into the study or. Blocking , the extraneous variable becomes an independent variable like the others. Statistical control of the extraneous variable: ancova.