Psychology A-Level
behavioural categories and tallies
What behavioural categories and tallies means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of behavioural categories and tallies
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A structured observation produces tallies in behavioural categories, and raw tallies rarely compare fairly because the totals behind them differ.
Topics that use behavioural categories and tallies
- Arithmetic and numerical computation (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- decimal conversion
- Estimating results
- percentage calculation
- pie chart construction
- range
- ratio and fraction forms
- raw frequency data
- Spread of scores
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