Psychology 1000- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 184 pages long!)
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Central tendency = mean, median, and mode: midpoint of ranked distribution. If there are an even number of scores in the set, take the mean of the 2 middle numbers: used when data is extreme (outlaws), ex. Mode: most frequent score, easy to view from a frequency distribution, modexmas = 60. Normal curve: symmetrical bell-shaped curve, overall shape determine by dispersion of scores. Range: x mdn mode, rangexmas = 85 58 = 27. Variance (s2: difference between highest and lowest score. In summary: a group of scores shows distributions, analyze data by looking at frequency, mean, median, and mode, shape influenced by (cid:498)spread(cid:499, range, variance, z-scores allow comparisons to the mean. Behaviour: factors: environmental norms, value system. Individual & psychological learning, cognitive processes: biological neural, hormones. Psychology (cid:498)long past but short history(cid:499: scientific study of behaviour and the mind. Psychobiology neuroscience, ethology: function, significance of behaviour how behaviour helps us adapt, unconscious experience, unresolved conflict the mind (subjective, ex.
