PsychologyEighth Edition

Chapter 1:Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

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David G. Myers

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Figure 1.1 The scientific methodMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.2 How to read a correlation coefficientMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.3 Scatterplots, showing patterns of correlationMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

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Figure 1.4 Scatterplot for height and temperamentMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.5 Three possible cause-effect relationshipsMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.6 Illusory correlation in everyday lifeMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.7 Two random sequencesMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.8 ExperimentationMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

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Figure 1.9 Read the scale labelsMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

Figure 1.10 A skewed distributionMyers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers

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Figure 1.11 What do you see?Myers: Psychology, Eighth EditionCopyright © 2007 by Worth Publishers