Psychology 2800E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psycinfo, Confounding, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
28 Oct 2013
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Psychological research: main interest is in human and animal behavior and appraisals (thoughts) Six stages of psychological research: (1) generate research idea (one-page summary) (2) review literature (annotated bibliography) What does future research need to address? (3) frame you study (introduction) Present rational for study, state research question and state hypothesis. (4) plan you methods (methods) Voluntary participation and freedom to withdraw, method or obtaining informed consent and participant confidentiality. (5) data collection and analysis (results) Present statistical analyses and visual displays (tables and figures) (6) discuss and interpret findings (final project) State whether results support or refute study hypothesis (link to intro), discuss implication of results (relate to lit findings), id limitations/problems with study (how to improve) and suggest directions for further research. Continuous variable: infinite number of possible values between adjacent scale values (height, weight, number grade, time). Something that is continuous can be divided into discrete categories for the sake of ease (time to the nearest second).
