Kinesiology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dependent And Independent Variables, Randomness, Scientific Method

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2032A/B
• Professor: Lindsay Nagamatsu

Document Summary

1. situational: describes characteristics of a situation or environment (e. g. , spatial density of a classroom, temperature in the gym) Often our independent variables (something we will. 2. response manipulate: responses or behaviours of individuals (e. g. reaction time, Often our dependent variable (the outcome we want time to complete a 10k) to measure based on our situational/independent variable: participant/subject, individual differences, characteristics (e. g, gender, intelligence, strength) No relationship: two variables are not related at all, # of episodes of making a murderer and school performance relationship. General patterns that don"t apply to everyone: height and weight relationship. Need to consider that there"s always variability. Correlation coefficient within a group: an index of how strongly two variables are related to each other. Important in research = allows us to have a comparison. A numerical way in indicating the strength of a relationship to evaluate how strongly the two variables are related to each other. Detecting relationships between variables reduces our uncertainty about the world.