PSY 245 WEEK 4 Descriptive Statistics Quiz
PSY 245 WEEK 4 Descriptive
Statistics Quiz
PSY 245 WEEK
4 Descriptive Statistics Quiz
PSY 245 WEEK 4 Descriptive Statistics Quiz
PSY 245 WEEK 4 Descriptive Statistics Quiz
Descriptive Statistics Quiz
Answer each of the following
questions (multiple-choice or short-answer) according to the question prompt.
- The number that occurs most frequently in a data set is
1.
mean
2.
median
3.
mode
4.
harmonic
- What type of graphic presents data in terms of frequencies
per category?
1.
Pie chart
2.
Line graph
3.
Bimodal distribution
4.
Histogram
- When you are dealing with a normal distribution of scores,
which measure of central tendency is preferred?
1.
Mean
2.
Median
3.
Mode
4.
All of the above, as they will
be the same in this distribution
- The _______ is a single number that represents the total
amount of variability in a distribution.
1.
standard deviation
2.
variance
3.
range
4.
mean
- Correlation coefficients represent
1.
The degree of relationship
between two variables
2.
causality between two
relationships
3.
whether the independent
variable had an effect
4.
all of the above
- Which of the following would probably be negatively
correlated?
1.
The number of days in class and
exam grade
2.
The height and weight of
college students
3.
The number of difficult classes
taken and semester GPA
4.
Overall college GPA and
graduate school GPA
- A perfect positive correlation occurs when
1.
an increase of 1 unit is always
accompanied by a proportional increase in the other variable
2.
there is no relationship
between the two variables
3.
an increase of 1 unit is always
accompanied by a lesser increase in the other variable
4.
an increase of 1 unit is always
accompanied by a greater increase in the other variable
- You are reading an article that says age and number of sick
days taken per year has a correlation of -0.72. How would you
interpret this correlation?
1.
A weak, positive correlation
2.
A weak, negative correlation
3.
A strong, negative correlation
4.
A strong, positive correlation
- If a data set has the following data points―5,6,7,6,7―you would
expect the standard deviation to be
6.
a small number, because the
numbers do not vary much from the mean of 6.2
7.
a large number, because the
numbers do not vary much from the mean of 6.2
8.
a large number, because the
numbers vary a great deal from the mean of 6.2
9.
a small number, because the
numbers vary a great deal from the mean of 6.2
- Descriptive statistics are
6.
procedures using the
experimental method
7.
procedures used to analyze data
after an experiment
8.
procedures used to summarize a
set of data
9.
all of the above
- The standard deviation is the square root of the
0.
variance
1.
mean
2.
range
3.
sum of the raw scores
- Define nominal
data, and provide an example.
- Define ordinal
data, and provide an example.
- Define interval
data, and provide an example.
- Define ratio
data, and provide an example.
- If you are dealing with percentages that total 100%, the best
graph to represent your data is a
- bar graph
- pie chart
- histogram
- frequency polygon
- If you want to know which score in a data set occurred the
most often, you would use a
- mean
- median
- range
- mode
- Which measure of central tendency is less accurate if there
are a few extremely large or extremely small numbers in the data set?
- Median
- Mode
- Mean
- Range
- Graphical representations of data sets
- allow an easy way to represent large sets of numbers
- are less confusing than several numbers in a descriptive
paragraph
- allow a point to be easily understood
- all of the above
- Which type of graph is frequency used to depict experimental
results?
- Pie chart
- Histogram
- Frequency polygon
- Line graph
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PSY 245 WEEK 4 Descriptive
Statistics Quiz
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