PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Naturalistic Observation, Confounding

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16 Sep 2016
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9. 7. 16: it is impossible to be unbiased, that"s why research is not fact (95% of this group ) Types of research: descriptive, case study, survey, naturalistic observation, correlation, experimental, these types go together to create a program of research, one way to describe and possible decrease some reporting bias, observing a subject/phenomenon in a natural environment. Correlational research: two variables covary together, measuring correlation, correlation coef cient, statistical measure of the extent to which two factors relate to one another, ranges from -1. 00 to +1. 00.

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