PSYC 1010 Lecture 2: Psych CH 2

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Become more clear on what we"re studying so we can further understand and explain. Go out there, collect data and put it to the test. Any claim has to be described and evaluated and bring it to the rest of the scientific community. Data must be gathered before recommendations can be made ie. with prescriptions of medication. Analyze the data and draw conclusions: descriptive correlational research. Freud came up with theory of unconscious--8 clients. Sampling biases (e. g. hite report: not representing the whole population. (r) describes the strength of the relationship between 2 variables. Positive correlations high scores correlated with high, low correlated with low. Negative correlations high scores with low scores, low with high. A third (hidden) variable can account for the relationship between two variables. The magnitude of a correlation coefficient indicates the strength of the relationship between two variables. The sign (plus or minus) indicates whether the correlation is positive or negative.