PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Alice Munro, Descriptive Statistics, Statistical Hypothesis Testing

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: gerald goldberg

Document Summary

82 year old alice munro, won the 2013 nobel prize in literature, ace munro was the first resident canadian and only the 13th woman anywhere to win this honor. Her specialty is the short story and emotion ids often the focal point of her work. Quantitative research involves empirical observational of the world reported as numeric quantities. Qualitative researchers make empirical observations of the work and report these observations as narratives. A theory is a system of interrelated ideas des to explain a set of observations. Theorists permit psychologists to make the leap from the description of behavior to the understanding of behavior. Enhanced understanding generate new predictions and suggesting new lines of inquiry. Theory construction is a gradual, iterative process hat is always subject to revision. Is to translate a theory or an intuitive idea into a testable hypothesis. An operational definition describes the actions or operations that eill be used to measure or control a variable.