PSYCH 303 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Null Hypothesis, Statistical Inference

• School: U of M
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 303
• Professor: Colleen Seifert

Document Summary

Data: a set of observations representing the values of some variable, collected from one or more research studies. Falsifiable: a feature of a scientific theory, in which it is possible to collect data that will prove the theory wrong. Hypothesis: a statement of the specific relationship between a study"s variables that the researcher expects to observe if a theory is accurate (prediction) Journal: a monthly or quarterly periodical containing peer-reviewed articles on a specific academic discipline or sub-discipline, written for a scholarly audience. Theory: a statement or set of statements that describes general principles about how variables relate to one another. Confound: a general term for a potential alternative explanation for a research finding (a threat to internal validity) Empirical journal article: a scholarly article that reports for the first time the results of a research study. Meta-analysis article: a way of mathematically averaging the effect sizes of all the studies that have test.