PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: United States Public Health Service, Jane Goodall, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: A.George Alder

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Jane goodall (chimpanzee experiment lived with them) Study how people"s belief change once their belief was disconfirmed: case study e. g. piaget. Structured questionnaire used to obtain info about specific aspect of subjects" behavior e. g. rapaport & burkhardt (1984) Higher the religiosity of the u. s. states, high teen birth rate. We want representative sample not unrepresentative sample from population. Key principles in psychological research cpa (2000) i. ii. iii. iv. Canada"s tri-council policy statement: ethical conduct for research involving humans. Summarize some aspect of a set of data. Allow for generalization from sample to population. If n is odd then actual middle value. If n is even, then average of two middle values. Because it uses all the raw data. Highest score lowest score = range. Average of the squared deviations from the mean. Index of linear relationship between 2 variables. Absolute value tells you strength f relationship. Number closest to 1 is the best predictor.