PSYCH 1F03 Lecture 1: Psych Chapters
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Chapter 2: research methods in psychology january 12th, 2017. Anecdotal evidence: information evidence gathered from others or from one"s own experiences. Case study: an in-depth investigation of an individual person or a small group of people, often over an extended period of time. Constant: a feature or quality that always takes the same value across all situations. Construct validity: the extent to which there is evidence that a test measures a particular hypothetical construct. Control group: a group of individuals designed to serve as an accurate comparison in an experiment. Correlation: a measure of the strength of the relationship between two variables. Correlation coefficient: a numerical index of the degree of relationship between two variables. Dependent variable: variable that is measured in an experiment. Descriptive statistics: statistics designed to describe the data collected. Double-blind study: experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know which group each participant belongs to.
