PSYCHSTAT (LESSON 1)

Statistics

The word ______ often awakens the awareness of the images of numbers assembled upon numbers in a vast table.

Data

The word statistics is synonymous with the word ____.

Statistics

branch of mathematics which deals with the collection, organization, presentation, analysia and interpretation of numerical data for the purpose of assisting in making a more effective decision.

Collection of data

Methods of gathering pertinent information include interviews and experiments.

Presentation of data

Refers to the exposition and arrangement of data in appropriate tables and graphs.

Analysis of data

refers to the activity of describing the properties, characteristics or behavior of the data or the possible correlation of different quantities.

Interpretation of data

refers to the activities that involve explanation of the meaning of the statistical finding for the formation of valid conclusions and inferences.

Psychology

science that deals with the study of human behavior and cognition of mental process.

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Great Greek Triumvirates

Socrates

His belief that thoughts and knowledge come from within us and the understanding of self allows one to live a virtous life.

Plato

Introduced to us that human is a rational beings, that we are born with the ability to understand the relationship of the events around us.

Aristotle

Stressed the importance od experience rather fhan reason

Predecessors

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are considered the _____ of a much modern perspective in psychology.

1796

The origin of experimental psychology can be tracked back to _____

Dr. Nevil Maskelyne

Fifth british astronomer royal of the greenwich astronomical observatory