PSYC-2101 Chapter Notes -Celsius, Kelvin, Continuous Or Discrete Variable
27 Jul 2013
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Chapter one: authority- true because of tradition or because some person of distinction says it"s true, rationalism- reasoning alone to arrive to knowledge. Assumes that reasoning correctly according to the rules of logic will yield truth: intuition- sudden insight, the clarifying idea that springs into consciousness all at once as a while. It is not arrived at by reason; often seem to occur after conscious reasoning has failed: scientific method- using reasoning and intuition to establish truth. Observational studies- no variables are manipulated therefore causality cannot be determined. Parameter estimation- conducted on samples to estimate the level of one or more population characteristics. Correlational studies- focus on two or more variables to determine if they are related. True experiments- to determine causality through the manipulation of one or more variables to measure the effect on the dependent variable. Descriptive statistics- analysis done for the purpose of describing or characterizing the data.
