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GRE Psychology
Research Design and Stats. I just wnna watch weeds.
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
10/11/2008

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Wundt
Definition
Founder of psychology
Believed experimental psych was limited--needed cultural psych to study memory, thinkin and language
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Ebbinghaus
Definition
Higher mental processes can be studied using experimental methodology
(Nonsense syllables man)
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Oswald Kulpe
Definition
Also disagreed with Wundt

Wundt said no thought without mental image

Kulpe performed expiriments to prove him wrong
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Nonequivalent Group Design
Definition
Not random. common in educational research because you can't randomly assign people to classes
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Demand characteristics
Definition
any cues that suggest to subjects what the researcher expects from them

reasons for blinding research
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Hawthorne effect
Definition
Refers to the tendency of people to behave differently if they know they're being observed
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Descriptive statistics
Definition
Concerned with organizing, describing, quantifying ad summarizing a collection of actual observations
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Inferential statistics
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Generalize beyond actual observations--concerned with making an inference from sample to general population
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Percent within one z-score
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34% on each side
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Z score distribution
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Mean=0
StdDev=1
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T score distribution
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Mean=50
StDev=10
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