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NVCC PSY 200-E43L Exam 1 (Updated Version) |
Featuring General Psychology Topics such as
Learning Theories ||Verified Exams (Classical and
Operant Conditioning), Memory Processes,
Developmental Stages, and Sensation and Perception
, Newest Exam!!!
There are three different types of Olympic medals: gold,
silver, and bronze. Which variable describes the different
types of Olympic medals? - Answers-Ordinal
Would an analysis of outliers provide useful information
even though they are not representative of most
participants? - Answers-Yes, because it may reveal
another factor that affects the dependent variable.
Lawrence is testing a new series of commercials on a
sample audience for an advertising company. He wants to
see which of ten commercials receives the highest rating
from audiences and he wants to use a different audience
for each commercial. What type of design is he using? -
Answers-Between-subjects
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To build a sample, the U.S. Census records the number of
people in a household. What type of data is this? -
Answers-Discrete
Matt is interested in whether there is a difference in time
spent sleeping at night in a given week between
elementary-school aged children and high-school aged
children. In this study, the independent variable is most
likely to be: - Answers-The age of the child
Maria wants to know if identical twins raised in different
environments have different IQ scores. What type of
research design can Maria NOT use because she can't
randomly assign participants? - Answers-Experimental
In which type of research design does each participant
experience all levels of the independent variable? -
Answers-Repeated measures
College students at 20 campuses were polled to find out
how many owned iPhones. The number of owners on one
campus would be an example of a(n) ______ statistic. -
Answers-Descriptive
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A sports drink company sampled 20 people who drink
sports drinks and found they performed significantly better
on athletic tests than those who did not drink sports drinks.
What is a possible confound of this study? - Answers-
People who drink sports drinks are also more active than
those who don't drink sports drinks.
In the Zimbardo prison study, students were assigned to
be either a prisoner or a guard so that the experimenters
could examine prison life behaviors and interactions.
However, the study had to end early because students
assigned to the prisoner role were suffering from
psychological breakdowns. What was the independent
variable in this study? - Answers-The role of prisoner or
guard
Creating a _____ table involves summarizing a group of
data by listing each possible value along with how
frequently the value occurred. - Answers-Frequency
Frances conducted an informal survey among women
living in her sorority house. One question asked, "How
many drinks do you have per week?" Frances found that
the results for this question were negatively skewed. What
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does this mean? - Answers-Most women drink a lot, but a
few do not drink much (if at all).
Dr. Choi is examining the weights of 750 children, 2 to 18
years old, to find out if childhood obesity rates are
increasing in his city. In this study, would it be better to use
a frequency table or a grouped frequency table? -
Answers-A grouped frequency table is better because it is
a large data set of continuous intervals.
A normal distribution is: - Answers-bell-shaped,
symmetrical, and unimodal.
Data that have not been transformed or analyzed are
referred to as: - Answers-Raw scores
Identify the shape of the following scores: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3,
4, 5, 7, 10, 19, 40. - Answers-Positively skewed
When creating histograms and frequency polygons , the x-
axis typically represents ______ and the y-axis typically
represents _____. - Answers-values or intervals;
frequencies
NVCC PSY 200-E43L Exam 1 (Updated Version) |
Featuring General Psychology Topics such as
Learning Theories ||Verified Exams (Classical and
Operant Conditioning), Memory Processes,
Developmental Stages, and Sensation and Perception
, Newest Exam!!!
There are three different types of Olympic medals: gold,
silver, and bronze. Which variable describes the different
types of Olympic medals? - Answers-Ordinal
Would an analysis of outliers provide useful information
even though they are not representative of most
participants? - Answers-Yes, because it may reveal
another factor that affects the dependent variable.
Lawrence is testing a new series of commercials on a
sample audience for an advertising company. He wants to
see which of ten commercials receives the highest rating
from audiences and he wants to use a different audience
for each commercial. What type of design is he using? -
Answers-Between-subjects
,2|Page
To build a sample, the U.S. Census records the number of
people in a household. What type of data is this? -
Answers-Discrete
Matt is interested in whether there is a difference in time
spent sleeping at night in a given week between
elementary-school aged children and high-school aged
children. In this study, the independent variable is most
likely to be: - Answers-The age of the child
Maria wants to know if identical twins raised in different
environments have different IQ scores. What type of
research design can Maria NOT use because she can't
randomly assign participants? - Answers-Experimental
In which type of research design does each participant
experience all levels of the independent variable? -
Answers-Repeated measures
College students at 20 campuses were polled to find out
how many owned iPhones. The number of owners on one
campus would be an example of a(n) ______ statistic. -
Answers-Descriptive
,3|Page
A sports drink company sampled 20 people who drink
sports drinks and found they performed significantly better
on athletic tests than those who did not drink sports drinks.
What is a possible confound of this study? - Answers-
People who drink sports drinks are also more active than
those who don't drink sports drinks.
In the Zimbardo prison study, students were assigned to
be either a prisoner or a guard so that the experimenters
could examine prison life behaviors and interactions.
However, the study had to end early because students
assigned to the prisoner role were suffering from
psychological breakdowns. What was the independent
variable in this study? - Answers-The role of prisoner or
guard
Creating a _____ table involves summarizing a group of
data by listing each possible value along with how
frequently the value occurred. - Answers-Frequency
Frances conducted an informal survey among women
living in her sorority house. One question asked, "How
many drinks do you have per week?" Frances found that
the results for this question were negatively skewed. What
, 4|Page
does this mean? - Answers-Most women drink a lot, but a
few do not drink much (if at all).
Dr. Choi is examining the weights of 750 children, 2 to 18
years old, to find out if childhood obesity rates are
increasing in his city. In this study, would it be better to use
a frequency table or a grouped frequency table? -
Answers-A grouped frequency table is better because it is
a large data set of continuous intervals.
A normal distribution is: - Answers-bell-shaped,
symmetrical, and unimodal.
Data that have not been transformed or analyzed are
referred to as: - Answers-Raw scores
Identify the shape of the following scores: 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3,
4, 5, 7, 10, 19, 40. - Answers-Positively skewed
When creating histograms and frequency polygons , the x-
axis typically represents ______ and the y-axis typically
represents _____. - Answers-values or intervals;
frequencies
