PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Standard Deviation
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Psychologists and scienctists 3 interellated goals: measuring and description. Develop measurements techniques to make it possible to describe behavior clearly: understanding and prediction. Make and test predictions called hypothesis: application and control. Psychology attempts to apply research findings to practical problems in hospitals, school, etc. Step 2: design the study plan experiment, put hypothesis to an empirical test. Step 3: collect the data data collecting techniques(procedures for making empirical observations) Step 4: analyze the data calculate the data, use statistics. Step 5: report the findings peer review process, publish reports. Correlational research is there an association between two variables. Measurable conditions, events, characteristics that are controlled-observed. It differs/varies across persons (e. g. , iq, height, age, exam score, race, memory ability, attitudes . ) Correlation coefficient a statistic, a number representing the degree of association its characteristics: direction: + or - and level: + 1. 0 . - 1. 0. A (amount of assigned readings have studied) and b (exam grade) = +. 79.
