Psyc 301 Exam 1 Questions With
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Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of tools and techniques used for
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describing, organizing, and interpreting information or data
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Goals of science and how statistics help achieve those - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Description- How do people behave? | | | |
Prediction- Identifying the factors that influence behavior
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Explanation-Identifying the underlying causes of a behavior | | | | | | |
Research methods and statistics are the ways we learn and discover
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Descriptive Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used to organize and describe data
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- Ex: counts, means, percentenges
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Inferential Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used to make inferences about a
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larger group from a smaller group
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- The next step after description
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Sample - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the group you actually collect data from
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Population - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the group you are actually interested in
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drawing some conclusions about
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, Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-something that can change or have different
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values for different individuals
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Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-information collected from the sample on the
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variable we are interested in
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Continuous Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-data measured on a continuum, all
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numbers between two end points are possible scores
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- Ex: height, weight, age
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Categorical Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-data that sorts people into categories,
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only so many options for the variable
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- Ex: gender, major, experimental condition
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Central Tendency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a single number number that
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represents a group of scores | | | | |
-Mean
-Median |
-Mode
Mean - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the average value of a group of numbers
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- most common
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| X-bar = (Σx)/n
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Complete Solutions
Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a set of tools and techniques used for
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describing, organizing, and interpreting information or data
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Goals of science and how statistics help achieve those - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Description- How do people behave? | | | |
Prediction- Identifying the factors that influence behavior
| | | | | | |
Explanation-Identifying the underlying causes of a behavior | | | | | | |
Research methods and statistics are the ways we learn and discover
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Descriptive Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used to organize and describe data
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- Ex: counts, means, percentenges
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Inferential Statistics - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-used to make inferences about a
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larger group from a smaller group
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- The next step after description
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Sample - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the group you actually collect data from
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Population - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the group you are actually interested in
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drawing some conclusions about
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, Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-something that can change or have different
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values for different individuals
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Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-information collected from the sample on the
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variable we are interested in
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Continuous Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-data measured on a continuum, all
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numbers between two end points are possible scores
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- Ex: height, weight, age
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Categorical Data - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-data that sorts people into categories,
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only so many options for the variable
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- Ex: gender, major, experimental condition
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Central Tendency - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-a single number number that
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represents a group of scores | | | | |
-Mean
-Median |
-Mode
Mean - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the average value of a group of numbers
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- most common
| | |
| X-bar = (Σx)/n
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