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PSYCHOLOGY 255 EXAM 1 PRACTICE SCRIPT
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

◉ Falsifiability. Answer: Ability to test if a theory can be proven
wrong.


◉ Descriptive statistics. Answer: Methods for organizing and
summarizing data.


◉ Variable. Answer: Characteristic that can take on different values.


◉ Constant. Answer: Characteristic that remains unchanged in a
study.


◉ Score. Answer: Individual's value on a specific variable.


◉ Quantitative variables. Answer: Numeric values indicating
measurable quantities.


◉ Categorical variables. Answer: Values without a natural order or
ranking.

, ◉ Central tendency. Answer: Measures that summarize a set of data.


◉ Mean. Answer: Average value of a data set.


◉ Median. Answer: Middle value dividing a data set in half.


◉ Mode. Answer: Most frequently occurring value in a data set.


◉ Variance. Answer: Average of squared deviations from the mean.


◉ Standard deviation. Answer: Measure of data dispersion around
the mean.


◉ Z-score. Answer: Indicates how many SD a score is from the mean.


◉ Effect size. Answer: Magnitude of a study's result quantified.


◉ Inferential statistics. Answer: Techniques estimating population
values from sample data.


◉ Estimation. Answer: Using sample data to infer population
characteristics.

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