Today: Summation Notation Friday: No Lab

Monday 9/2: No class (Labor Day)

Wednesday 9/4: Introduction to Research

Methods
Friday 9/6: Open Lab

Research Context: A researcher was interested in the reaction of 3-yearold children to an aggressive act toward them performed by another child. Five kids were brought into the lab (one child at a time). Each child was placed in a room for a few minutes of free play-time with another child who was a little older, say, 5 years old. While the child was playing, the researcher asked his/her parent to rate how aggressive the child was on a scale from 1(not at all) to 7(very). The older child playing with the subject was actually a confederate working with the researcher and had been instructed to physically take away whatever the subject was playing with near the end of play-time. The researcher then moved the subject child to his/her own room with a BoBo doll (and not much else to play with). The researcher then counted the number of times the child hit the BoBo doll.

Individual (i)

Parents Rating (X) 2 4 3 1 3

# of Times Child Hits BoBo (Y) 3 6 2 1 7

1 2 3 4 5

n=5

xi = x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 + x5
xi = 2 + 4 +3 + 1 + 3 = 13

y
Individual (i)
1 2 3 4 5 2 4 3 1 3

i
# of Times Child Hits BoBo (Y) 3 6 2 1 7

Parents Rating (X)

 P. ARENTHESES

E. XPONENTS
M. ULTIPLICATION

D. IVISION
A. DDITION S. UBTRACTION

 Same rules apply for summation notation

3x 3(x) 2 x 2 (x)

Individual (i) 1 2 3 4 5

Parents Rating (X) 2 4 3 1 3

# of Times Child Hits BoBo (Y) 3 6 2 1 7