PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Scale-Invariant Feature Transform, Random Assignment, Hindsight Bias

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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