Activity D
Collection of data involving two independent measures and analysis using a test of correlation.
Correlation is a method of data analysis which is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to each other.
You will need a clear correlational hypothesis and null hypothesis. It is important that your hypothesis is correlational and not a prediction of difference.
Note that you are looking for a relationship between two independent variables and there is no dependent variable.
You will need to carry out both descriptive and inferential statistics for this activity. More on statistics.
You are allowed to use software to calculate your statistics. Some statistical tests can be found here.
You will need to know about the difference between positive, negative and zero correlation, correlation coefficient and limitations of correlation. More on correlation.
More Stuff
More pages.- Cognitive Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Individual Differences
- Physiological Psychology
- Social Psychology
And A Bit More Stuff
Some more pages.
- About (just stuff about this site)
- Core Studies 2 (a quick link to stuff about this paper)
- Exam Questions (past exam questions of course)
- Shop (you know you want to buy something)
- Links (nearly as fab as books)
- PsychBlog (great blog dedicated to OCR psychology)
- Further reading (books are fab)
- A Level Psychology (that stuff you do in the 2nd year)
- LearnByIt (where you can buy stuff that I have written)
- Learn Psychology (great site for any students of psychology)