PSYC 3110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Statistical Power, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Systematic Sampling

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3110
• Professor: Kieran O' Doherty

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Between groups design is known as (cid:498)cross sectional design(cid:499). equally ineffective or equally harmful: matched groups of people to different treatments. If taken one at a time, this: failure to find differences may be for the following reasons: equally effective, ethical issues of trying to treat someone with no need for treatment is not acceptable. If needed, the control group is best (placebo control): each group should have the same amount of attention. Case studies: used to describe a detailed descriptive amount of a person, group or collective. Analysis processes are how the case is shaped. Interval around the mean of a sample that one can state with a known probability contais the mean of the population: varies according to population size, range of values where the parameter is supposed to be. Diaries & blogs: method for collecting information about temporal changes in health status, researcher or participant prepared, qualitative or quantitative (e. g. generations).