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Basic scientific research is carried out:
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To solve practical problems
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Just to see what would happen
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To verify a theoretical problem
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To gather data to test a theory
Pregunta 2
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Precision Teaching is defined as:
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A method of teaching a child to be highly fluent in certain skills
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A measurement system that helps a teacher decide on whether the teaching is effective
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A teaching approach that emphasises basic skills teaching
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A system that allows teachers to design a precise curriculum
Pregunta 3
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When developing hypotheses, the inductive approach seeks to_____
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Generate hypotheses
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Test hypotheses
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Simplify hypotheses
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All of the above
Pregunta 4
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Which of the following best represents the stages of the experimental method of research?
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Research question, hypothesis testing, data collection, data analysis, support/reject theory
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Research question, generate theory, hypothesis testing, data collection, data analysis, support/reject theory
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Research question, generate theory, data collection, data analysis, support/reject theory
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Generate theory, hypothesis testing, data collection, data analysis, support/reject theory
Pregunta 5
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A theory must be parsimonious, specific and testable. To what does the term parsimonious refer?
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The easiest, most sensible and most academic explanation of the evidence
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The first answer is usually the correct one when testing a theory
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The simplest, most economical and efficient explanation of the evidence
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The most detailed answer is usually the correct one when testing a theory
Pregunta 6
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A Murder Mystery – Detective Noclue interviews a large pool of suspects, and then eliminates them to leave the culprit unmasked. This is an example which of scientific method?
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Induction
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Deduction
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Reduction
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All of the above
Pregunta 7
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Which is not one of the four principles of PT
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Frequency as a measure of behaviour
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Learner knows best
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Standard Celeration Chart is used as a measurement tool
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Focus on all types of behaviours
Pregunta 8
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Which of the following does NOT form part of the SAFMEDS procedure?
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Saying responses aloud
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Focus is on speed as well as accuracy
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Work on a section of the pack at a time
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Complete timings each day
Pregunta 9
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An alternative term for a repeated measures design is__________
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Between-subjects design
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Within-subjects design
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Reversal design
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Self-correcting design
Pregunta 10
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A hypothesis is best defined as ____________
Pregunta 11
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Dr Who was attempting to find a cure for procrastination. He developed an intervention whereby students were immediately rewarded with chocolate for handing work in early. He designed an experiment with one treatment group. Chocolate given to students was the dependent variable. Individuals were first measured in a baseline phase, then a treatment phase, followed by another baseline phase. This is a classic example of a(n):
Pregunta 12
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The phase of a SCD experiment in which the treatment is introduced is known as the ________ phase.
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Baseline
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Intervention
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Replication
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Post-test
Pregunta 13
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When you move from a baseline phase to an intervention phase and then back to a baseline phase, you are using a_________________ design
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Drifting baseline
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Reversal design
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Intrasubject design
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Intersubject design
Pregunta 14
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Which of the following is NOT a phase in the A-B-A design?
Pregunta 15
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Multiple baseline designs attempt to control for confounds by_______
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Introducing the treatment at different time points to different people
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Introducing the treatment to the same person across different behaviours
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Introducing the treatment to the same person in different situations
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All of the answers
Pregunta 16
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The ABA design is generally considered ________ than the ABAB design because participants _________
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More desirable; are left with the effects of the treatment
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Less desirable; are not left with the effects of the treatment
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More desirable; are not left with the effects of the treatment
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Less desirable; are left with the effects of the treatment
Pregunta 17
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The baseline stage of a single-case experimental design is useful to researchers because behavior during the baseline allows the researchers to_________
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Get an initial idea of whether the treatment will be effective.
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Determine whether an individual is likely to benefit from the treatment.
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Describe behavior before administering the treatment and predict what behavior will be like in the future without treatment.
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Determine the best way
Pregunta 18
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In the ABAB design, a major ethical concern surrounds______
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Waiting for a series of initial baseline observations before administering the treatment
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Administering the treatment immediately after the initial baseline phase
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Removing the treatment after it has already been shown to be effective
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Reintroducing the treatment after it has already been shown to be effective
Pregunta 19
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If told that this intervention (A-B) was successful, was the behaviour?
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Something we wanted to INCREASE in frequency
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Something we wanted to DECREASE in frequency
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Something that we wanted to remain the same
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Not enough information to make a judgment
Pregunta 20
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What is the Percentage of Non-overlapping data for the participant?
Pregunta 21
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An educational psychologist was interested in the effects of a six-week mnemonics intervention on students’ ability to remember areas of the brain such as the hippocampus. How might you define the mnemonics intervention?
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Independent variable
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Dependent variable
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Outcome variable
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Resultant variable
Pregunta 22
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Researchers wanted to examine the impact of watching Alien on memory in a group of older adults. A variety of cognitive tests such as memory tests and word generation tests were administered to the group before, during and after watching one of the films. How might you describe the research design of such a study?
Pregunta 23
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The results of the Tauntaun long jump final at the Hoth Olympics a long time ago in a galaxy far far away are given below. What is the mean distance jumped by the top 10 Rebel Soldiers (answers to two decimal places)?
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8.04 m
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8.05 m
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8.06 m
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8.07 m
Pregunta 24
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What is the median distance jumped by the top 10 Rebel Pilots (answers to 2 decimal places)?
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8.05 m
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8.07 m
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8.09 m
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8.11 m
Pregunta 25
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Examine the histogram of the qualifying distance for the Tauntauns long jump final at the Hoth Olympics. How would you describe the appearance of the histogram?
Pregunta 26
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Large standard deviations will have what sort of distribution, relative to a distribution with a low standard deviation?
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Raised
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Flatter
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The same
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Zero
Pregunta 27
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The middle score in a distribution is the __________________ and the score occurring the greatest frequency is the ____________________.
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Mean; Median
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Median;Mode
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Mean; Mode
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Mode;Median
Pregunta 28
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A prediction regarding the outcomes of a study is a(n) ____________ and an organised system of assumptions and principles that attempts to explain certain phenomena and how they are related is a(n)__________________.
Pregunta 29
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In which of the following distributions would you find the mean, median and mode to
be identical?
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Normal
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Positively Skewed
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Negatively Skewed
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All of the answers
Pregunta 30
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When writing up a results section for most types of study (including SCD studies) it is good practice to use which ordering of detail?
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Descriptive statistics, effect size, figure/table/graph
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Figure/table/graph, descriptive statistics, effect size
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Descriptive statistics, figure/graph/table, effect size
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Effect size, figure/graph/table, descriptive statistics
Pregunta 31
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The length of time taken to complete a multiple choice questionnaire exam would be best measured using a(n):
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Interval level measure
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Ratio level measure
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Nominal level measure
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Ordinal level measure
Pregunta 32
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While temperature in degrees Celsius is measured on a(n) ____________ scale, ‘luke-warm, warm, and hot’ would be examples of a(n) ____________ scale
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Interval; Ratio
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Interval; Ordinal
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Ratio; Interval
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Ratio; Ordinal
Pregunta 33
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Using letter grades (A, B, C, D, E) to classify student performance on an exam is an example of measurement on a(n)____________ scale
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Nominal
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Ordinal
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Interval
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Ratio
Pregunta 34
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Which of the following is NOT a continuous variable?
Pregunta 35
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Which type of data would you use to record your status as a full or part time student?
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Ordinal
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Continuous
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Dichotomous
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Factorial
Pregunta 36
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Which level of measurement would be best to measure the approximate distance from Main Arts to the Wheldon Building?
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Nominal
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Ordinal
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Ratio
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Interval
Pregunta 37
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By definition a ratio scale has an absolute zero. What does this mean?
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A point where none of the quality being measured exists
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A point where you can score a minus value
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A point where you have no opinion on a topic
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Absolute zero does not exist; it is a hypothetical construct
Pregunta 38
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In SPSS what is the 'Variable View'?
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A dialog box that allows you to choose a statistical test
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A table summarising the frequencies of data for one variable
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A screen in which variables can be defined and labelled
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A screen in which data are entered
Pregunta 39
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Which of the following methods would you use to enter data on gender into SPSS so you can conduct statistical analyses?
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Enter data for males first and then for females
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Type male, female, or non-gender specific into the appropriate column of the data view
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Enter the data into different pages on SPSS depending on whether the answers are Male, Female or Non-gender specific
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Numerically code the answers given with different numbers
Pregunta 40
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You are asked on a questionnaire to tick all the relevant boxes that apply to you on an item asking you which clubs or societies you belong to. Affiliation to a club or society would best be thought of what sort of variable?
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A categorical variable
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An absolute variable
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A hypothetical variable
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A continuous variable
Pregunta 41
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What is meant by the term descriptive statistics?
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Methods used to summarise the data
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Methods used to see if the results are significant
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Methods used to generalise from a sample
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All of the above
Pregunta 42
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What is the best way to summarise nominal data?
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Means
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Standard deviations
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Frequencies
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Medians
Pregunta 43
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The standard deviation is...
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The variance divided by the sample size
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The square root of the sums of squares
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The average of the sums of squares
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The square root of the variance
Pregunta 44
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Which of the following statements are true?
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A 95% confidence interval is a range of scores from the lowest to the highest value in the sample
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A 95% confidence interval is a range of scores within which we believe the population mean will fall
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A 95% confidence interval is a range of scores within which we believe that participants were confident in their answers
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All of the answers
Pregunta 45
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The frequency distribution of the means of several samples from the population is called....
Pregunta 46
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Which type of chart displays the mean with the confidence intervals represented as vertical lines?
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Line chart
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Histogram chart
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Horizontal bar chart
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Error bar chart
Pregunta 47
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Compute the mean of the following set of scores and give the answer to 2 decimal places: 3, 5, 7, 3, 6, 8, 2, 7
Pregunta 48
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A _____________ is a numerical characteristic of a population and a ____________ is a numerical characteristic of a sample
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statistic; parameter
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mode; mean
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model; descriptive
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parameter; statistic
Pregunta 49
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The typical value of a dataset is described by measures of...
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Central Tendency
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Variance
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Dispersion
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Normality
Pregunta 50
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When the confidence intervals are small, this suggests that...
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The population mean is a good estimate of the sample mean
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The sample mean is a good estimate of the population mean
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The sample mean is a poor estimate of the population mean
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The sample mean may be significantly different from the population mean
Pregunta 51
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If an event has a 95% probability of occurring, what does this mean?
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The event will occur 5 times out of every 100
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The event will occur 95 times out of every 100
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The event will occur 95 times out of every 95
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The event will occur 5 times out of every 95
Pregunta 52
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Use the additional figure to answer the next three questions. The figure shows the standard normal distribution. Arrow A indicates the ____________
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Mean
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Median
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Mode
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All of the answers
Pregunta 53
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Arrow B indicates ______________
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68.26% of scores
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34.13% of scores
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50.00% of scores
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95.44% of scores
Pregunta 54
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Arrow C indicates _____________
Pregunta 55
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If your z-score was -2.85, this would show that ____________
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Your score was 2.85 times smaller than the highest score in the class
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Your score was 2.85 standard deviations below the mean
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Your score was 2.85 standard deviations above the mean
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There was a probability of 2.85% of obtaining a score less than your score
Pregunta 56
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The difference between the sample statistic and the population parameter is called the ______________
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Extraneous variable
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Experimenter bias
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Systematic error
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Sampling error
Pregunta 57
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If the scores on a test have a mean of 26 and a standard deviation of 4, what is the z-score for a score of 18?
Pregunta 58
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If you have a probability of 67%, what is it expressed as a decimal?
Pregunta 59
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In order to comply with BPS ethics guidelines, researchers should ____________
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Ensure that people give informed consent to participate
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Ensure that all participants complete the experiment
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Ensure that participants do not find out the true purpose of the research
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All of the answers
Pregunta 60
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Which of the following would give the closest value to the population mean?
Pregunta 61
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“A data point very far removed from others within the data set” is known as?
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A latent variable
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A case
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An outlier
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Significant
Pregunta 62
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Which of the following actions will always change the value of the mean?
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Changing the value of one score
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Adding a new score to the distribution
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Removing a score from the distribution
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All of the answers
Pregunta 63
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A sample consists of n=16 scores. How many of the scores are used to calculate the sample range?
Pregunta 64
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The phase of a multiple baseline design in which the treatment is introduced is known as______________.
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The baseline
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The phaseline
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The intervention
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The application
Pregunta 65
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Two events are_____________ if they have no effect on each other.
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Correlated
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Independent
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Related
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Dependent
Pregunta 66
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Population ___________, sample statistics.
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Parameters
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Percentiles
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Descriptives
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Inferentials
Pregunta 67
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The purpose of a research report is to provide what kind of information?
Pregunta 68
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Probability values are always____.
Pregunta 69
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In a population of N=6, five of the individuals all have scores that are exactly 1 point above the mean. From this information you can determine that the score for the sixth individual must be____________.
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Also above the mean by one point.
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Below the mean by one point.
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Below the mean by five points
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We do not have enough information to describe the 6th score.
Pregunta 70
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The normal distribution is an example of________________.
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A histogram showing data from a sample.
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A polygon showing data from a sample.
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A bar graph showing data from a population.
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A smooth curve showing data from a population.
Pregunta 71
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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.
In this example, the level of depression is the ______ variable.
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Dependent
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Extraneous
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Correlational
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Independent
Pregunta 72
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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.
In this example, the independent variable is _________.
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The brightness of the lights
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The level of depression
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The houses with 110-watt bulbs
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The houses with 60-watt bulbs
Pregunta 73
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Dr Martha Jones is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence mood during the winter. She selects a sample of 110 households. Fifty of the homes were randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr Jones replaced all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights were changed to 60 watt bulbs. After two months Dr Martha Jones measured the level of depression for the people living in the houses.
The design of the study can best be described as __________
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Correlational
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Between-groups
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Within-groups
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Control group