PSYC 2001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Standard Deviation, Statistical Significance, Normal Distribution
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Descriptive stats topic is not on the midterm exam, however apa is on the exam. Introduction: goes from general concept to more specific, previous studies are mentioned: method: how you conduct the study, or how you proposed the study, how the sample was collected, how it was measured and so on. In-text citation: put author(s) name (use (cid:862)&(cid:863)), and year of publication. 6 or (cid:373)ore first author"s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e a(cid:374)d et al. Descriptive stats: descriptive stats: describing data in different ways ex: scatterplots, bar graphs. Inferential stats: asking questions about statistical significance: normal distribution: most of what we study falls into this category = bell curve in a realistic world. Each score on the data subtract the average (mean) and adding all those numbers together equals to 0: large number in variance = lots of variables, variance: how much each score is from the average.