3003PSY Survey Design and Analysis || A+ Graded Already.
If a measure of assertive communication did not tap heavily into constructs such as aggression
and yield consistent scores over several measurement occasions with the same participants, I
could conclude that the measure had:
a. Low reliability and high validity
b. High reliability and high validity
c. Low reliability and low validity
d. High reliability and low validity correct answers b. High reliability and high validity
Arousal, hunger, warmth, and status are... correct answers constructs
Prof Kylie Minogue is examining the effect of a new training program on memory for hit songs.
She uses a standardised song recall task after training each morning. For this measure,
participants' general musical aptitude is (HINT: error or score) correct answers systematic error
the standard deviation of the distribution of sample meas is referred to as ____ error correct
answers standard
statistic is to sample as ____ are the populations correct answers parameters
a survey is _____ if it measures the same construct repeatedly correct answers reliable
a survey is _____ if it measures the construct it was designed to measure correct answers valid
measurement error due to systematic factors and unrelated to a person's true score on a construct
is referred to as ______ correct answers systematic error
We use results from our study sample to make ______ regarding the population correct answers
inferences
____ score on a measure is the systematic effect of the underlying construct correct answers True
a broad content domain is also known as a correct answers topic
questions like why?, How much?, who does it? etc. is what in a research process? correct
answers research questions
Questions and driven jointly by research questions and predictions is what in the research
process? correct answers potential methods/paradigms
'How does a study run?' (e.g. method section of paper, cross-sectional survey) is what in the
research process correct answers procedural design
'How is whatever data analysed?' and must map directly onto any predictions is what in the
research process? correct answers statistical design
,What shows the frequency or counts of data and can tel us about how scores on a variable are
distributed? correct answers histogram
Y-Axis values are typically what? correct answers counts of data
X-Axis values are typically what? correct answers Bins or Classes
What are the three features of a histogram? correct answers title, data, and X/Y axis labels
What type of curve has a mean of zero and standard deviation of 1? correct answers Standard
Normal Distribution.
What type of curve can have any real values for the mean and standard deviation? correct
answers Normal Distribution Curve
What features can a distribution curve have to describe our data? correct answers shape, centre,
spread, deviations from pattern.
More data to the higher end of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers to the left
more data is in the middle of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers symmetrically
More data to the lower end of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers to the right
negatively skewed data is skewed to the... correct answers left
normal skewed data is skewed... correct answers symmetrically
positively skewed data is skewed to the... correct answers right
kurtosis shape is the _______ of distribution. correct answers peakness
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers positive kurtosis
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers negative kurtosis
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers normal kurtosis
1 peak is called what? correct answers unimodal
2 peaks is called what? correct answers bimodal
3+ peaks is called what? correct answers multimodal
the centre of distribution is the ______ of distribution. correct answers middle
, a symmetric hisotgram, the values of the mean, median, and mode are all located where on the
distribution? correct answers centre
what is it called when a value is extreme on the axis of a histogram? correct answers outlier
if the mean exceed the median this will be consistent with a _____ skew. correct answers
positive
if the mean is less than the median this would be a ______ skew correct answers negative
if there is a significant outlier which would be unaffected. Mean, median or/and mode. correct
answers mode and median
the most common value in a distribution is called the what? correct answers mode
the middle value of scores sorted from least to most is called the what? correct answers median
the sum of all of the values divided by the number of values is called the what? correct answers
mean
the mode is most appropriate for? correct answers categorical data
the median is most appropriate for? correct answers skewed distributions
the mean is most appropriate for? correct answers symmetrical and normal distributions
What has similar principles as the median as they rely on ordering the values from low to high?
correct answers quartiles
How many quartiles are there? correct answers 3
which quartile cuts between the lowest value in the media correct answers quartile 1
which quartile cuts between the median? correct answers quartile 2
which quartile cuts between the highest value? correct answers quartile 3
what is the sum of data squared deviation values divided by another number? correct answers
Variance
if the mean was the balance point what would the sum of the deviation be of each one of these
points from the mean? correct answers zero
if the sum of squared deviations is divided by the number of values we are testing the what?
(variance) correct answers population
If a measure of assertive communication did not tap heavily into constructs such as aggression
and yield consistent scores over several measurement occasions with the same participants, I
could conclude that the measure had:
a. Low reliability and high validity
b. High reliability and high validity
c. Low reliability and low validity
d. High reliability and low validity correct answers b. High reliability and high validity
Arousal, hunger, warmth, and status are... correct answers constructs
Prof Kylie Minogue is examining the effect of a new training program on memory for hit songs.
She uses a standardised song recall task after training each morning. For this measure,
participants' general musical aptitude is (HINT: error or score) correct answers systematic error
the standard deviation of the distribution of sample meas is referred to as ____ error correct
answers standard
statistic is to sample as ____ are the populations correct answers parameters
a survey is _____ if it measures the same construct repeatedly correct answers reliable
a survey is _____ if it measures the construct it was designed to measure correct answers valid
measurement error due to systematic factors and unrelated to a person's true score on a construct
is referred to as ______ correct answers systematic error
We use results from our study sample to make ______ regarding the population correct answers
inferences
____ score on a measure is the systematic effect of the underlying construct correct answers True
a broad content domain is also known as a correct answers topic
questions like why?, How much?, who does it? etc. is what in a research process? correct
answers research questions
Questions and driven jointly by research questions and predictions is what in the research
process? correct answers potential methods/paradigms
'How does a study run?' (e.g. method section of paper, cross-sectional survey) is what in the
research process correct answers procedural design
'How is whatever data analysed?' and must map directly onto any predictions is what in the
research process? correct answers statistical design
,What shows the frequency or counts of data and can tel us about how scores on a variable are
distributed? correct answers histogram
Y-Axis values are typically what? correct answers counts of data
X-Axis values are typically what? correct answers Bins or Classes
What are the three features of a histogram? correct answers title, data, and X/Y axis labels
What type of curve has a mean of zero and standard deviation of 1? correct answers Standard
Normal Distribution.
What type of curve can have any real values for the mean and standard deviation? correct
answers Normal Distribution Curve
What features can a distribution curve have to describe our data? correct answers shape, centre,
spread, deviations from pattern.
More data to the higher end of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers to the left
more data is in the middle of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers symmetrically
More data to the lower end of the x-axis is skewed how? correct answers to the right
negatively skewed data is skewed to the... correct answers left
normal skewed data is skewed... correct answers symmetrically
positively skewed data is skewed to the... correct answers right
kurtosis shape is the _______ of distribution. correct answers peakness
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers positive kurtosis
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers negative kurtosis
what is this kurtosis shape? correct answers normal kurtosis
1 peak is called what? correct answers unimodal
2 peaks is called what? correct answers bimodal
3+ peaks is called what? correct answers multimodal
the centre of distribution is the ______ of distribution. correct answers middle
, a symmetric hisotgram, the values of the mean, median, and mode are all located where on the
distribution? correct answers centre
what is it called when a value is extreme on the axis of a histogram? correct answers outlier
if the mean exceed the median this will be consistent with a _____ skew. correct answers
positive
if the mean is less than the median this would be a ______ skew correct answers negative
if there is a significant outlier which would be unaffected. Mean, median or/and mode. correct
answers mode and median
the most common value in a distribution is called the what? correct answers mode
the middle value of scores sorted from least to most is called the what? correct answers median
the sum of all of the values divided by the number of values is called the what? correct answers
mean
the mode is most appropriate for? correct answers categorical data
the median is most appropriate for? correct answers skewed distributions
the mean is most appropriate for? correct answers symmetrical and normal distributions
What has similar principles as the median as they rely on ordering the values from low to high?
correct answers quartiles
How many quartiles are there? correct answers 3
which quartile cuts between the lowest value in the media correct answers quartile 1
which quartile cuts between the median? correct answers quartile 2
which quartile cuts between the highest value? correct answers quartile 3
what is the sum of data squared deviation values divided by another number? correct answers
Variance
if the mean was the balance point what would the sum of the deviation be of each one of these
points from the mean? correct answers zero
if the sum of squared deviations is divided by the number of values we are testing the what?
(variance) correct answers population
