PSYC 2030- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 29 pages long!)

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Instructor notes - chapter 1 - page 1. Learning objectives and chapter summary: students should be familiar with the terminology and special notation of statistical analysis. Statistical terms population sample parameter statistic descriptive statistics inferential statistics sampling error. Measurement terms operational definition nominal ordinal interval ratio discrete variable continuous variable real limits. Research terms correlational method experimental method independent variable dependent variable nonexperimental method quasi-independent variable. Figure 1. 1 is useful for introducing the concepts of population and sample, and the related concepts of parameter and statistic. Although the concept of sampling error is not critical at this time in the course, it is a useful way to introduce and justify the need for inferential statistics. Figure 1. 2 is a simple demonstration of the concept that sample statistics are representative but not identical to the corresponding population parameters, and that two different samples will tend to have different statistics.