PSYC 1010- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 21 pages long!)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Know formula for z, standard error, cohen"s d, and confidence interval. Don"t need to know t for exam! (add in formulas) You are mediocre at best golfer and you have been given a chance to play with tiger woods. Your decision truth: iv is innocent (ho is. Truth: the iv is guilty (ho is really false) **if you know how big the difference in means should be, you can calculate the power (probability of correctly rejecting jo) Compare a sample to a population when you don"t know the population sd. Compare each person"s performance to themselves in a sample. Use it when you have iv/dv study with two level in iv, one from population, scale dv but no population sd. You use sample dv to estimate standard deviation when you have a t test. You use a different sampling distribution ( the t distribution instead of the z distribution, though both are based on the sampling distribution of the mean.