OUTLINE

I. Ways of Knowing About the World

A. Authority

B. Logic

C. Intuitive Methods

1. Common Sense

2. Mysticism

D. Science

II. Working Assumptions of Science

A. Reality

B. Rationality

C. Regularity

D. Causality

E. Discoverability

III. Research Strategies

A. Research Design

1. Experiment

2. Correlation

3. Descriptive

B. Data Collection

1. Self Report

2. Observation

C. Research Setting

1. Laboratory

2. Field

IV. Correlation vs. Experiment

Association vs. Causation

V. Theory & Experiment

The Scientific Method

VI. Statistical Methods

A. The Correlation Coefficient

B. Populations, Samples & Distributions

1. Variability of the Distribution

a. Standard Deviation

2. Centrality of the Distribution

a. Mean

b. Median

c. Mode

C. Comparing Distributions