PSY 101 Final Exam - Requires Respondus LockDown Browser + Webcam: General Psychology

In a research study, Doctor Akiva assigns some participants to drink 1 cup of coffee before doing a manual dexterity task and other participants to drink 3 cups of coffee before doing a manual dexterity task to test if caffeine affects performance. What is the dependent variable? Your Answer: performance Performance on the manual dexterity task statistics summarize data from a sample, whereas statistics allow researchers to generalize to a broader population. Your Answer: Descriptive inferential Descriptive; inferential What is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics? Your Answer: Descriptive statistics summarize data from a sample, inferential generalize the results to the population. Descriptive: summarize a sample of information Inferential: generalize to a population