TEST BANK
STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER NO. 01: DISPLAYING THE ORDER IN A GROUP OF NUMBERS USING
TABLES AND GRAPHS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) A team of investigators collects data on the number of students who are on scholarship
at various local colleges. If the team then makes a frequency table to summarize the
data, they are using a(n)
A) measure of central tendency.
B) descriptive statistical method.
C) intuitive statistical method.
D) inferential statistical method.
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Remembering
2) A student theorizes that performance on a statistics exam will be related to the number
of hours she spent studying. This student will be required to test her theory using
A) common sense.
B) reasoning by analogy.
C) inferential statistics.
D) intuition.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Understanding
3) The two main branches of statistical methods are
A) theoretical and inferential.
B) intuitive and observational.
C) descriptive and intuitive.
D) descriptive and inferential.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Remembering
4) The value of putting numbers into a frequency table is that
A) it makes the pattern of numbers clear at a glance.
, B) it enables one to draw inferences from the table.
C) frequency tables are required by many journals.
D) frequency tables are easily constructed.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Understanding
5) A psychologist is interested in studying aggressive tendencies in people and develops a
measure of this personality characteristic. In this study, aggression is a(n)
A) abstract concept.
B) variable.
C) value.
D) invariable construct.
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Remembering
6) Several employees of a major corporation are rated for their degree of job satisfaction.
If a particular employee’s job satisfaction is rated 8 on a
20-point scale, 8 represents that employee’s
A) frequency.
B) variable.
C) score.
D) percentile.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
7) An intelligence test includes 15 items. Thus, a person’s score could lie between 0 and
15. Each of these potential numbers of correct responses
(0–15) that a person could possibly obtain is called a
A) value.
B) variable.
C) frequency.
D) mean.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Remembering
8) If the difference between scores of 3 and 4 is approximately the same as the difference
, between scores of 15 and 16, the variable is
A) an equal interval variable.
B) a nominal variable.
C) a ratio variable.
D) a rank-order variable.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Remembering
9) Numeric variables are also called
A) nominal variables.
B) categorical variables.
C) quantitative variables.
D) irrelevant variables.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
10) All of the following are examples of rank-order variables EXCEPT
A) a student’s rank in his or her graduating class.
B) a tennis player’s standing compared to other athletes in the region.
C) a runner’s place finished in a race.
D) a student’s level of stress just before an exam.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Analyzing
11) All of the following are examples of a nominal variable EXCEPT
A) hair color.
B) religious affiliation.
C) Social Security number.
D) score on an IQ test.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Understanding
12) Which of the following is an example of a nominal variable?
A) Grade point average (3.2, 2.7, etc.)
B) Number of friends a person has (0, 1, etc.)
, C) Birth position in a family (first, second, etc.)
D) Nationality of the car a person owns (American, Japanese, etc.)
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Understanding
13) Which of the following is an example of an equal-interval variable?
A) Marital status of a person (single, divorced, etc.)
B) Number of friends a person has (2, 4, etc.)
C) Results of a horse race (arrived 1st, 2nd, etc.)
D) Numbers printed on the back of a basketball team’s jerseys (21, 43, etc.)
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Understanding
14) A researcher wishing to summarize all the scores for a variable in a study creates a
frequency table, but finds that there are so many values that the table is too
cumbersome to be useful. The next step would be to make a
A) histogram.
B) frequency polygon.
C) grouped frequency table.
D) pie chart.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
15) A researcher measures the eye movements of 100 participants as they read ambiguous
words embedded within sentences. Because eye movements are measured in
milliseconds, and there are likely to be many different times measured, the researcher
might decide to use a __________ to help make sense of these data.
A) frequency polygraph
B) scatterplot
C) grouped frequency table
D) horizontal bar chart
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Evaluating
STATISTICS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
CHAPTER NO. 01: DISPLAYING THE ORDER IN A GROUP OF NUMBERS USING
TABLES AND GRAPHS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) A team of investigators collects data on the number of students who are on scholarship
at various local colleges. If the team then makes a frequency table to summarize the
data, they are using a(n)
A) measure of central tendency.
B) descriptive statistical method.
C) intuitive statistical method.
D) inferential statistical method.
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Remembering
2) A student theorizes that performance on a statistics exam will be related to the number
of hours she spent studying. This student will be required to test her theory using
A) common sense.
B) reasoning by analogy.
C) inferential statistics.
D) intuition.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Understanding
3) The two main branches of statistical methods are
A) theoretical and inferential.
B) intuitive and observational.
C) descriptive and intuitive.
D) descriptive and inferential.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Remembering
4) The value of putting numbers into a frequency table is that
A) it makes the pattern of numbers clear at a glance.
, B) it enables one to draw inferences from the table.
C) frequency tables are required by many journals.
D) frequency tables are easily constructed.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Understanding
5) A psychologist is interested in studying aggressive tendencies in people and develops a
measure of this personality characteristic. In this study, aggression is a(n)
A) abstract concept.
B) variable.
C) value.
D) invariable construct.
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Remembering
6) Several employees of a major corporation are rated for their degree of job satisfaction.
If a particular employee’s job satisfaction is rated 8 on a
20-point scale, 8 represents that employee’s
A) frequency.
B) variable.
C) score.
D) percentile.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
7) An intelligence test includes 15 items. Thus, a person’s score could lie between 0 and
15. Each of these potential numbers of correct responses
(0–15) that a person could possibly obtain is called a
A) value.
B) variable.
C) frequency.
D) mean.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Remembering
8) If the difference between scores of 3 and 4 is approximately the same as the difference
, between scores of 15 and 16, the variable is
A) an equal interval variable.
B) a nominal variable.
C) a ratio variable.
D) a rank-order variable.
Answer: A Bloom’s Category: Remembering
9) Numeric variables are also called
A) nominal variables.
B) categorical variables.
C) quantitative variables.
D) irrelevant variables.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
10) All of the following are examples of rank-order variables EXCEPT
A) a student’s rank in his or her graduating class.
B) a tennis player’s standing compared to other athletes in the region.
C) a runner’s place finished in a race.
D) a student’s level of stress just before an exam.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Analyzing
11) All of the following are examples of a nominal variable EXCEPT
A) hair color.
B) religious affiliation.
C) Social Security number.
D) score on an IQ test.
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Understanding
12) Which of the following is an example of a nominal variable?
A) Grade point average (3.2, 2.7, etc.)
B) Number of friends a person has (0, 1, etc.)
, C) Birth position in a family (first, second, etc.)
D) Nationality of the car a person owns (American, Japanese, etc.)
Answer: D Bloom’s Category: Understanding
13) Which of the following is an example of an equal-interval variable?
A) Marital status of a person (single, divorced, etc.)
B) Number of friends a person has (2, 4, etc.)
C) Results of a horse race (arrived 1st, 2nd, etc.)
D) Numbers printed on the back of a basketball team’s jerseys (21, 43, etc.)
Answer: B Bloom’s Category: Understanding
14) A researcher wishing to summarize all the scores for a variable in a study creates a
frequency table, but finds that there are so many values that the table is too
cumbersome to be useful. The next step would be to make a
A) histogram.
B) frequency polygon.
C) grouped frequency table.
D) pie chart.
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Remembering
15) A researcher measures the eye movements of 100 participants as they read ambiguous
words embedded within sentences. Because eye movements are measured in
milliseconds, and there are likely to be many different times measured, the researcher
might decide to use a __________ to help make sense of these data.
A) frequency polygraph
B) scatterplot
C) grouped frequency table
D) horizontal bar chart
Answer: C Bloom’s Category: Evaluating
