Exam (elaborations) PSYC 3002 Week 1 Statistics Test – Question And Answers

Sarah learns that her 3-year-old scored as well as or better than half of the children in Pam’s language development study. Sarah’s child scored at the _________ percentile. Pam is studying speech development in 3-year-olds in daycare. She observes 30 children over two weeks and takes note of various aspects of the children’s speech. What is the population in this study? Pam wants to know if a new vocabulary intervention increases language development. She administers the intervention to 30 three-year-olds in daycare. She then compares the number of vocabulary words children who received the intervention can say to the number of vocabulary words children who did not receive the intervention can say. What is the independent variable in this study? Continuous variables can contain fractions. A sample is