Measuring Mind and Behaviour Notes

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Topics: Research Methods- - Thinking like a Scientist - The Scientific Method - Reliability and Validity - Threats to Validity - Descriptive and Observational Research - Correlational Research - Quasi-Experimental Research - True Experimental Research Research Methods & Statistics- - Ethics - Statistics: Introduction - Measuring and Manipulating Variabbles - Data Collection and Measures of Central Tendency Statistics: - Measures of Variability - Percentile Rank and z-score - Univariate, Bivariate and Polyvariate tables - Frequency Distribution Graphs - Stem-and-leaf Plots - Scatterplots - Z-Score and Standard Normal Distribution - Distribution of Sample Means - Inferential Statistics - T-Test Statistics for Inference about Population Means and Mean Difference - T-Test Statistics for repeated measures and independent designs - Relationships in nonparametric data: Introduction to Chi-Square