PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Standard Deviation, Scatter Plot, Random Assignment
31 May 2018
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PSYC 1010 EXAM 1
WEEK 1
• 2 forms of statistics
o descriptive
▪ describing and organizing data
o inferential
▪ making inferences
• scientific method
o allow cause and effect explanation
o 3 ways of knowing
▪ observation
• use your senses
▪ inductive logic
• specific to general
▪ deductive logic
• general to specific
• problems with inductive reasoning
o sample
▪ small group of ppl used in study
o sample used to generalize to the population
• 3 goals of the scientific method
o 1. Observe and describe lawful relationships between variables
▪ to accomplish this goal, we need- descriptive statistics
o 2. Predict new observations, predict what would happen in general
▪ uses inductive logic
▪ to accomplish this goal, we need- inferential statistics
o 3. Explain why the observed relationship between variables occurs (give the
cause)
▪ accomplished through theory
• theory= explanation for observed result
• ie children who play music when they are young are good at math
bc music=patterns=math
▪ we test a theory using
• the true experiment!
WEEK 2
• types of variables
o manipulated
▪ the variable you take control of
o measured
▪ the ariale you do’t take otrol of
• types of studies
o True experiment
▪ type of variables
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