SOCI 2150 Study Guide - Statistical Inference, Human Factors And Ergonomics, Experimental Psychology
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1) define human factors in a single sentence and expand upon this definition in the remaining paragraph. It is associated with experimental psychology and engineering. A multidisciplinary field incorporating: psych, engineering, biochem, graphic. Decreased # of acute and chronic injury. Examples: improved lighting at sorting stations in a fruit ad veggie processing. Increased product quantity facility: list, in order, the 5 steps involved conducting a scientific experiment and briefly describes each, define problem and hypothesis. Set up an experimental design to determine if a cause-and-effect relationship exists: specify the experimental plan. Define the detail of the experiment, what will they be doing. What, when, why, how: conduct the study. Researcher obtains participants, develops materials, starts to conduct the study: analyze the data. Data is analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics to see whether there are significant differences among the three groups: draw conclusions.
