quiz 1 Flashcards
(12 cards)
Which variable describes an attribute such as hair or eye color, religion, gender, or one’s favorite type of Italian food?
Qualitative
Measuring a group of people’s stress levels, religiosity, or amount of depression are examples of _____.
Hypothetical constructs or variables
In general, the _____ variable is manipulated by the experimenter and its effects are measured on the ______ variable.
independent; dependent
On a _____ scale, the difference between weighing 180 and 190 pounds is the same as weighing 345 and 355 pounds.
Ratio
As you assumed before taking this course, statistics is a math class.
False
The independent variable has levels.
True
College students having to earn research credits for an Introduction to Psychology course is an example of _____ sampling.
convenience
In which type of research design do you manipulate an independent variable but do not randomly assign people to groups?
Quasi-experimental
The time it takes a rat to run a maze is considered a _____ variable.
Continuous
Answering a question with a scale such as Very Happy, Happy, Generally Happy, Generally Unhappy, Unhappy, and Very Unhappy is an example of a _____ scale of measurement.
Ordinal
In statistics we are interested in the population or the larger set of data.
True
Descriptive statistics describe the data and can be used to generalize beyond the data at hand and draw conclusions.
False
