PSYC 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Estimation Theory, Naturalistic Observation, Descriptive Statistics

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Jonathan Mohr

Document Summary

Authority: we consider something true because of tradition or because some person of distinction says it"s true. Intuition: sudden insight, the clarifying idea that springs into consciousness all at once as a whole, not arrived at by reason, idea often seems to occur after conscious reasoning has failed. Scientific method: uses both reasoning and intuition for establishing truth, reliance on objective assessment is what differentiates this method from the others. Population: complete set of individuals, objects or scores that the investigator is interested in studying, collection of all things with one or more specific characteristic, entire group of interest. Biased sample: over or under representation of some part of the population. Variable: any property or characteristics of some event, object or person that may have different values at different times depending on the conditions: height, weight, reaction time to a drug, constant: doesn"t change, example would be pi.