PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Inductive Reasoning, Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Trick Lana

Document Summary

Check your notes: you should have these concepts in your notes (that means explanations and when possible, examples) Statistics (to refer to methods for organizing, summarizing, and interpreting data) Descriptive (statistical procedures used to summarize, organize, and simplify data) vs. inferential statistics (consist of techniques that allow us to study samples and then make generalizations about the populations from which they were selected) Scientific method (systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses) Objective vs. subjective observation (subjective observation is ruled by the life, memories, biases, and prejudices of the person that came up with it. A subjective observation is based on how an individual perceives reality, rather than reality itself) Deductive vs. inductive logic (deductive reasoning is the process of reasoning from the general to the specific. Inductive reasoning is the process of reasoning from the specific to the general)