PSYC 201W Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Inter-Rater Reliability, Naturalistic Observation, Observer-Expectancy Effect

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201W
• Professor: george alder

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