PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Statistic, Statistical Inference, Confounding

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Abstract - summary of hypotheses, methods, and results. Introduction - outlines research question; reviews past research and theory; introduces formal hypotheses. Methods: describes the participants, procedure and materials used. Results: describes what was found; tables & graphs; statistics. Compare with past research and suggest practical applications. Why is it useful: educates you on how to be a good consumer of science you"re able to evaluate the information and sort out what is true and what isn"t. Psychological construct an abstract psychological concept (ex. Operational definition a construct defined in terms of how it is to be measured (ex. # of times child hits bobo doll with toy hammer, i. q. score, # of dates with opposite sex, rate) Independent variable (iv) - the cause variable: naturally occurring in a correlational study, manipulated in an experiment. Dependent variable (dv) - the effect variable; depends on the independent variable: measured by the investigator.