IBM SPSS for Intro Stats Chapter 1 (Morgan) questions with correct answers

variable - correct answer a characteristic of the participants or situation in a given study that has different values (gender, age, treatment/intervention, # of days to learn something) constant - correct answer a characteristic of a participant that has only one value (gender = all female, ethnicity = all European American) 2 types of independent variables - correct answer active & attribute active or manipulated independent variable - correct answer such as a workshop, new curriculum, or other intervention, at least one level of which is given to a group of participants w/in a specified period of time during the study; necessary but not sufficient condition to make cause and effect conclusions attribute or measured independent variable - correct answer the values of the independent variable are preexisting attributes of the persons or their ongoing environment that are not systematically changed during the study (parental education, SES, gender, age, ethnic group, IQ, self-esteem)