PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes -Scatter Plot, Confounding, Central Tendency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Theories simplify and organize facts, and can offer a useful summary. They will be useful if it: organizes a range of self-reports and observations and, implies predictions that anyone can use to check the theory or to derive practical applications. Case studies examine one individual in depth in the hope of revealing the truth. They show us what can happen and often suggest directions for further study. Naturalistic observations describe behavior, not explain it. By observing actions, this paves the way for further studies of thinking, language and emotion. Surveys look at many cases in less depth; asks people to report their behavior or opinions. A correlation is positive if two sets of scores, such as height and weight, tend to rise or fall together. A correlation is negative if two sets of scores relate inversely, one set is going up as the other goes down.