Psychology 2660A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statistical Inference

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2660A/B
• Professor: K.Andrew White

Document Summary

Overview: we will discover the goals of i/o psychology as a science, what the scientific process is, research methods in i/o psychology, experimental and quasi experimental studies, non experimental (correlational) studies, meta analyses. Based: select on intelligence, structure interviews to recruit and hire the best people, promote job satisfaction through mental challenge, motivate employee performance through goal setting, use power effectively to influence people, guy who wrote a book: The research process: research question/hypotheses, study design, data collection, quantitative research, data analysis, build stats and conclusions. Step 1: questions and hypotheses: sources, theory, observation/experience, previous research, hypotheses (makes questions testable, testable question is what this is by identifying key variables basically. Step 3: data collection: putting numbers to the variables, key issue, operationalization (measurement) of variables, data collection methods, interview, survey, observation, archival. Scatter plot: r = . 00 e c n a m r o f r e.