PSYC0223 Pre-learning

This is just a place to host some pre-learning for students on my PSYC0223 course before they have access to moodle.

This module is delivered to a range of students with very different amounts of background experience in statistics. In order to provide an experience which is valuable to all, we have to establish a baseline of expected knowledge. Below are a list of key concepts you are expected to know before lecture 1. If you do not feel confident in any of these, then go through the Pre-learning lecture notes below, and also complete the associated worksheets. These also have links to online videos throughout to reinforce key lessons.

The topics covered in these pre-learning resources / which you are expected to understand before lecture 1 are:

• Measures of central tendency (Mean; Median; Mode)

• Measures of dispersion (The standard deviation)

• Histograms (Frequency and Proportion)

• The probability density distribution

• Z-scores

• The distribution of sample means

• Standard error

• t-scores

• p-values

Pre-Learning 1:

Pre Learning 2: