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Identify and Define the Four Goals of Psychology

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Identify and define the four goals of psychology. For each goal, use one or more concrete examples to illustrate how psychologists might pursue the goal in their research.


Definitions:

Statistic

A statistic is a numerical measurement describing some characteristic of a sample, which is a subset of the population data.

Research Hypothesis

An educated guess or prediction made for the purpose of testing through scientific research, stating a potential outcome or relationship.

Critical Values

Thresholds in hypothesis testing which, if exceeded by the test statistic, indicate that the null hypothesis can be rejected.

Standard Deviation

A metric that quantifies how spread out a dataset is in comparison to its average value.

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