PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Beck Depression Inventory, Inter-Rater Reliability, Scientific Literacy
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Population: the group that researchers want to generalize about. Working the scientific literacy model: demand characteristics and participant behavior: researchers should withhold as much information from participant to get the best least biased results. Why is this relevant: single cases serve as inspiration for many future studies that test whether or not a specific case can be generalized case studies are not just intriguing stories told my scientist. Naturalistic observation: naturalistic observations: when psychologist unobtrusively observe and record behavior as it occurs in the subject"s natural environment. Correlational research: correlational research: involves measuring the degree of association between two or more variables, researchers look for an association among variables. E. x it is highly that countries with higher education levels also tend to have higher income levels: are depicted using scatterplots, correlations have direction. Are positive when two variable"s change values in the same direction (one variable increases, the other one increase as well vice versa).
