PSYCH291 Lecture Notes - High High

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH291
• Professor: Joanne Wood

Document Summary

*people tend to test hypotheses by focusing on confirmatory evidence. Rank order of participants on novel/ rank order of participants on exciting measure. High scores tend to go with high scores; low scores go with low scores = a positive correlation. In the case of a positive correlation, high scores on one measure are associated with high scores on the other measure; low scores on one measure associated with low scores on other measure. In the case of a negative correlation, high scores on one measure are associated with low scores on the other measure; low scores on one measure associated with high scores on other measure. High scores on conflict go with low scores on relationship satisfaction; low scores on conflict go with high scores on relationship satisfaction = a negative correlation. *you can think of correlations as lining up the rank orders of scores on two measures. *in case of positive correlations, high high, low-low.