PSYCH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Psychological Association, East Los Angeles College, Critical Thinking
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Canadian psychological association (cpa) code of conduct is designed to ensure: safety of participants, benefits outweigh risks (ex. Researcher can use deception if there is no potential harm to participants and if trust can be re-established by disclosing the truth immediately in a debriefing (full disclosure to research participants of nature/purpose of experiment) after its completion. When using another species (animals) for research it must be humane: have to adhere to ethical guidelines ccac (canadian council of animal care, research should not involve exploitation of the animal. Mathematical procedures that summarize data into a meaningful fashion. Central tendency: calculating an average (ex. avg. set of numbers) Variability: how groups of numbers differ from one another. Relations: tell how closely related sets of numbers are. Distribution of data following a bell-shaped probability function. Statistical measure used to characterize the value of items in a sample of numbers. Mean: the sum of a group of numbers divided by their number (average)
