PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Palmistry, Standard Deviation, Statistical Significance
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Week 1: lecture #1: wednesday january 07 2015. Scientific theories: explicitly defined constructs linked by correspondence rules, specifying testable hypotheses. Non-scientific theories: astrology, palmistry (hand-reading, our implicit personality theories: Not stated, don"t have data to support them. As you should more of one, the less you show of the other. Dependency and negative affect (na) are only slightly correlated. Two diff lvl of dependency: mature and immature forms. Reflect on satisfaction due to the positive and negative affect. Immature: other needs to fit your needs, these are the ppl who suffer from high scores in dependency and na. Variation: expected value of the squared deviation from the mean: Variance: the extent of the spread or dispersion in a series of values, equal to the. The standard deviation (sd) is equal to the square root of the variance. Covariance: an index of the extent to which to variables co-occur or vary tgt (covary)
