PSY201H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dependent And Independent Variables, Statistical Inference, Descriptive Statistics
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Techniques that are used to describe or characterize the data. Techniques that use the obtained sample data to infer to populations. Involves probability and various inference tests (i. e. , student s t test, analysis of variance) Something is considered true because of tradition or because some person of distinction says its true. Uses reasoning alone to arrive at knowledge. There are situations where reason alone is inadequate to determining the truth. The clarifying idea that springs into consciousness all at once as a whole. The idea often seems to occur after conscious reasoning has failed. Uses reasoning and intuition to arrive at a hypothesis about some feature of reality. Relies on objective assessment to test the hypothesis. Provides the basis for an objective evaluation of the hypothesis. Data from the scientific experiment forces a conclusion constant with reality. A population is the complete set of individuals, objects or scores that the investigator is interested in studying.
