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2011 VN'ers Psychology U3 Questions Thread
« on: December 31, 2010, 01:14:14 am »
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To organise all the tricky (or not) questions into one organised thread (and reduce clutter throughout the board) please post all your Psych concerns here!

Good luck all, I'm stoked! :D

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2010, 01:17:16 am »
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I'll try to help out with answering questions in this thread!

Feel free to ask anything, even if you think it's a stupid question :P

PM me if you're too shy to post it haha :)
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2010, 11:29:04 am »
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stickied! I'll also keep an eye on the thread. I'm fairly familiar with most of the contents of the study design and I have good research skillz.

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2011, 06:20:08 pm »
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FIRST QUESTION :) it may seem like a simplistic one but i need help lol
Can someone give me an understandable definition of Functionalism and structuralism??
thanks

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2011, 07:31:57 pm »
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They're different ways of approaching psychology:
functionalism - your behaviour is based on adapting to your environment.
structuralism - interested in breaking down the different elements of consciousness and understanding those elements both independently and as part of a system.

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« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2011, 08:34:46 pm »
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2011, 05:26:36 pm »
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We know that if the p value is less than 0.05 results are said to be statistically signficant.

What about if the p value equals 0.05?

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2011, 05:35:11 pm »
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We know that if the p value is less than 0.05 results are said to be statistically signficant.

What about if the p value equals 0.05?

Then it is not statistically significant (just).
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #8 on: January 06, 2011, 06:21:39 pm »
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We know that if the p value is less than 0.05 results are said to be statistically signficant.

What about if the p value equals 0.05?

Then it is not statistically significant (just).

No that is incorrect
if the p value is lower OR EQUAL TO 0.05 in most experiments, then the results can be said to be statistically significant

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #9 on: January 06, 2011, 06:25:36 pm »
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Please guys, don't confuse me :(

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #10 on: January 06, 2011, 06:27:03 pm »
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I personally think j.w. is right here. It's less than or equal to 0.05. I'm pretty sure I asked my teacher this before the unit 4 exam (as there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer anywhere) and that's what she told me although she said a p value is almost always represented with an inequality so you probably won't have to deal with it anyway.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #11 on: January 06, 2011, 06:37:03 pm »
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I personally think j.w. is right here. It's less than or equal to 0.05. I'm pretty sure I asked my teacher this before the unit 4 exam (as there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer anywhere) and that's what she told me although she said a p value is almost always represented with an inequality so you probably won't have to deal with it anyway.

I was told (and as i wrote it in my notes) its only less than 0.05, as I'm pretty sure thats what Grivas' book said. The new study design may have changed a little here though? Not that likely really.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #12 on: January 06, 2011, 06:45:53 pm »
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I personally think j.w. is right here. It's less than or equal to 0.05. I'm pretty sure I asked my teacher this before the unit 4 exam (as there doesn't seem to be a clear cut answer anywhere) and that's what she told me although she said a p value is almost always represented with an inequality so you probably won't have to deal with it anyway.

I was told (and as i wrote it in my notes) its only less than 0.05, as I'm pretty sure thats what Grivas' book said. The new study design may have changed a little here though? Not that likely really.
Research methods never change...? What do I do now...? Wait for Eriny? :P

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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #13 on: January 06, 2011, 06:50:15 pm »
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If you have the new edition of grivas, read page 72 - the second paragraph on the left column. It has a less than or equal to symbol. Which is what it should be. Not just less than. It needs to have "<" but with a line underneath.

I remember at a lecture (pathways education) the person said that it was 0.05 or less than for the p value, but that memory is kinda vague. I still would say it's less than or equal to 0.05 though. That's just my personal view though, it could be wrong.
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Re: 2011 VN'ers Psychology Questions Thread
« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2011, 06:57:07 pm »
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It's completely arbitrary because you can set whatever p value you want for your experiment. That said when you're considering the standard 95% cutoff I have always rejected the null hypothesis with p < .05

p = .05 is statistically insignificant at the 5% level according to me/my education but VCE may define it differently. From memory you don't actually do any proper statistics in VCE psychology so I don't think it will be an issue

e, scratch that, if Grivas says differently then I'd back that
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