Psychology 2800E Study Guide - Abscissa And Ordinate, Operant Conditioning, Central Tendency
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1= 8 am class, 2= 11 am class: record coding guide in lab notebook, comment page of your data sheet. Preliminary descriptive statistics: descriptive statistics: statistics that summarize a set of data (do first, inferential statistics: statistics that help us to draw conclusions about populations. Frequency table (p 328: rows indicate possible scores, columns represent particular info about those possible scores, each row gives information about a particular score, allow a lot of info to be arranged and displayed in a clear format. Percentiles: percent that follows at or below a score. Tables and graphs that show the relationship between two variables. Data points connect with straight line indicate empirical function: drawing smooth curve implies a particular mathematical function and generally means that there is a theory that describes the exact shape. Relationship btw frequency distributions and other graphs: frequency distributions are different from other graphs but could be related (see p 372)
