PSY411 - basic of research design and stats
Studied by 0 people
Call with Kai
Learn
Practice Test
Spaced Repetition
Match
Flashcards
Knowt Play1/9
There's no tags or description
Looks like no tags are added yet.
Name | Mastery | Learn | Test | Matching | Spaced | Call with Kai |
|---|
No analytics yet
Send a link to your students to track their progress
10 Terms
stats/research methods
allows us to understand the process of science, evaluate researchers’s claims, be able to read papers
goals of science
description - observation and accounting of phenomena
prediction - identifying factors indicate that an event will occure
explanation - cause and effect
scienctific method
problem/idea
hypothesis
observation/experimentation
refining/retesting/explaining
stat
methods and rules for organizing, summarizing and interpreting info(inferental stat)
population
all individuals of interest;
large; descriptor called “parameter”
sample
a set selected to represent the population
can vary in size(usually smaller)
descriptor - statistic (use to guess what the population parameters are)
sampling error
distance btwn the parameter and the statistic
sampling bias
if the sample systematically misrepresents the population
research methods
1 descriptive: cross-sectional/survey, case study (in depth of a person/event)
2 predictive (relational) - correlational; quasi- experimental
3 explanatory - true experimental design
Note 
Flashcards (37)