PSYCH 1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Falsifiability, Test Cricket, Recap (Software)
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Psychology : a science of people (and animals) Within-person variation : differences within an individual"s own behavior. Variable : a label for some psychological phenomenon that has variation. A = affect = emotions and feelings. B = behavior = things that you do. C = cognition = thoughts that you have. Research question : an attempt to learn about how or why variation occurs. Statistical model : a formula that specifies and organizes the variables you are interested in studying. Writing out a model : dv ~ iv1 + iv2 + + iv k + error. Dv = what you want to predict. Iv = your theory about what predicts the dv. Error = other factors that explain the dv that are not part of your model. Say : the dv is a function of ; the dv depends on the iv(s) . Prediction : an educated guess you have about the future.
