PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Dependent And Independent Variables, Internal Validity, Frequency Distribution
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Population: entire collection of events in which you are interested. Descriptive statistics: describing the data collected only, not the scenario. Inferential statistics: trying to reach conclusions that extend beyond the immediate data alone. External validity: the degree to which the sample reflects the population. Random sampling: every member in the population has an equal chance of being selected. First-person shooter game and spatial attention, the more you play, the better you are. The degree to which an experiment measures what it is supposed to. Assignment to groups such that every member of the sample has an equal chance of being selected for each group. A property of an event that can take on different values. I am interested on the effect of iv on dv . Variable that can take on a limited number of value. Variable that can take any value within a scale (theoretically) Variable that can take on many different values.
