MSU Moorhead

Psy 231 Overheads

NOTE: These are old notes from last year. I'll have the content updated by tomorrow

Scientific Method	Research strategy and validity	Pearson r
Explanations in Scientific Psychology	External validity	Other correlations
Sources of research ideas	Descriptive research	Regression overview
Hypotheses	Frequency distributions (updated)	Standard error of estimate
Measurement & variables	Graphing frequency distributions	Normal distribution and z scores
Scales of measurement and statistics	Percentiles, percentile ranks and interpolation	Probability
Reliability and validity of measures	Central Tendency	Binomial distribution
Ethics in research	Variability	Exam 3
Selecting participants (sampling)	Variability cont'd	The distribution of sample means
Reactivity and experimenter effects (extra)	Exam 2	Hypothesis testing
Exam 1	Correlational research	Power and Effect Size