PSYC1111 HD lecture notes

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PSYC1111 Measuring Mind and Behaviour Lecture Notes from weeks 1 - 10. Mark: HD - 89 Notes Includes: - Research Methods: thinking like a scientist, the scientific method, reliability and validity, threats to validity, descriptive and observational research, correlational research, quasi-experiment, true experiment and ethics. - Statistics: introduction, measuring and manipulating variables, data collection and measures of central tendency, measures of variability, percentile rank and z-scores, tables, frequency of distribution graphs, stem and leaf plots, scatterplots, z-scores and standard normal distribution, distribution of sample means, inferential statistics, single sample t-tests, independent sample t-tests andRelationships in nonparametric data: introduction to Chi-square