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Psych Lab Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are descriptive statistics? | Describe data, Measures of central tendency, mean median mode, and variability, range and standard deviation. |
| What are inferential statistics? | T-Test, matematical methods used to determine the probability that differences were observed by chance alone. |
| Independent Variable | what the researcher manipulates. |
| Dependent variable | what the researchers measure. |
| What is the t-test? | Used to ask whether the means are related. t= difference between means/variability of groups |
| What does p mean? | Probability that differences observed between groups could occur by chance. |
| Null Hypothesis | States that there is not a significant difference between the two groups. |
| Alternate Hypothesis | States that there is a significant difference between the two groups. |