PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reaction Formation, Totton And Eling, Toilet Training

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

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Measures the average spread of scores from the mean: measures the average spread of scores (deviation) from the mean, takes into account all scores, not just highest and lowest, two sets of data might have the same mean, but their standard deviations might differ, the greater the spread, the greater the standard deviation. 2)inferential statistics provide us with a way of determining how much confidence we can have in results obtained from samples by telling us how likely it is that results are due to chance alone: real (cid:224) true in the population (cid:224) statistically significant, 0. 05 (5%) is the number used to determine if our results are real or not, p = probability level (number, if p > 0. 05, then the results are due to chance, if p < or = 0. 05, then the results are statistically significant (real)