PSYCO104 Lecture : Psychology 104 Lecture January 22.docx

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Gail Moroschan

Document Summary

Psychology 104 lecture january 22, 2014 midterm review: know names of individuals and approximate time period that the person was alive/had significance and have a good understanding of the experiments they did and what conclusions we can draw from this, know the approaches to psychology and who believed in what, re watch videos, factual (memorization) and conceptual (application) questions. How does it work and what is needed for it to be used: know the difference between a theory and hypothesis, hypothesis = falsifiable, theory = must be proved using a hypothesis, what are the differences between correlation and causation, with correlations we cannot conclude a causation effect (one variable did not necessarily cause the other variable, causation is typically the result of a very controlled experiment which tries to rule out a third variable to ensure reliability of the tested variable, what are the differences between descriptive and inferential statistics, descriptive = frequency distribution, provides mean, median, range, skew.