PSYCH 240 Final: Psych 240 Final Exam Study Guide
13 Feb 2017
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Statistics: a branch of mathematics that deals with the organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. Population: the set of people, animals, groups, etc. that we"re interested in understanding. Just a group of things that we are drawing conclusions from. Ex) rat mother population; not mothers, not rats, specifically rat mother. Ex2) autism population; not just in amherst but everywhere. The size depends; practical considerations ($ and hard to find ppl) Sample: a subset of the population (bc it"s hard to study all the members of the population) Random sample: a set of members of the population selected in such a way that all individuals in the population have an equal chance of being in the sample. ~representative sample: it is like the population as a whole; with respect to what matters in your study. Variables: the properties of the individuals that are of interest. Values: specific values that the variables can have.
