PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetus, Normal Distribution, Standard Deviation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: paulabarata

Document Summary

Correlations and basic statistics is intelligence associated with creativity? are optimistic people healthier than pessimistic is it more likely that children who experience child abuse will develop mental illness than children who do not. Ex. success in graduate school researcher statistically determines if x and y are related variables are not manipulated, just measured not causation goal is to determine if an association between variables exist because if there is not it. Correlation does not prove causation: 2 variables could have mutual effects, but a third could underlie both variables. *we make causation assumptions even though the relationship is correlational* *correlational fallacy- coming to an illogical conclusion based on correlational data* Finding an association may help us better understand how each is developed. Finding an association can help us better understand. Correlation coeffiecient correlations are mathematically described by a correlation coefficient.