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Question 1 (1 point) A health psychologist is studying dieting…
Question 1 (1 point)
A health psychologist is studying dieting behavior. He measures food consumption by asking about the number of calories a person has consumed in a given day. What is the level of measurement.
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Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 2 (1 point)
A social psychologist is studying sexual behavior. She measures gender by asking participants if they identify as male, female, or non-binary. What level of measurement is this?
Question 2 options:
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 3 (1 point)
A developmental psychologist is studying the effects of childhood experiences on later educational experiences. She measures academic success by asking participant to identity their class rank at high school graduation. What level of measurement is academic success (class rank) being measured at?
Question 3 options:
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Interval
Ratio
Question 4 (1 point)
A clinical psychologist is studying public speaking anxiety. He has college students complete a measure about situations that cause them anxiety. They respond on a measurement scale that has options Strongly Disagree (1), Disagree (2), Neutral (3), Agree (4), and Strongly Agree (5). What level of measurement is this?
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Ratio
Question 5 (1 point)
An industrial-organizational psychologist is studying who makes an effective impression during job interviews. She has hiring managers rate applicants after each interview. Each applicant is rated as “Not Qualified” “Somewhat Qualified” or “Very Qualified.” What level of measurement is this?
Question 5 options:
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 6 (2 points)
There are two major reasons that levels of measurement matter. What is one of them?
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Scenario 1
A researcher is interested in figuring out which students in Minnesota are most likely to be successful in college. She surveys 1500 college students from around the state and asks them a series of questions. She considers the roles of socioeconomic status, depression, and choice of major in determining academic success among college students in Minnesota. The measures she includes are as follows:
Mother’s income (in dollars)
Father’s income (in dollars)
Mother’s education level (less than high school, high school graduate, some college, college graduate, post-graduate degree)
Father’s education level (measured same as mother’s education)
A 10 item measure of depression with questions answered on a 1 to 5 scale (1=strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree)
Academic major
Academic success measured as GPA from most recently completed semester.
Question 7 (1 point)
The 1500 students represent the ______________, while all college students in Minnesota represent the _______________ .
Question 7 options:
Sample; Population
Population; Sample
Question 8 (1 point)
Mother’s and father’s income are both
Question 8 options:
Nominal measurement
Ordinal measurement
Interval measurement
Ratio measurement
Question 9 (1 point)
Mother’s and father’s education are both
Question 9 options:
Nominal measurement
Ordinal Measurement
Interval measurement
Ratio measurement
Question 10 (1 point)
Depression is measured as
Question 10 options:
Nominal measurement
Ordinal measurement
Interval measurement
Ratio measurement
Question 11 (1 point)
The goal of this research is
Question 11 options:
To explain
To predict
To apply
To describe
Question 12 (2 points)
Explain your answer from the previous question. Why do you think that is the goal of this research?
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Scenario 2
A cognitive psychologist is interested in the relationships between the study methods (Traditional or Technology-based) that high school students use and their academic performance. She randomly assigns 50 students from Central High School to the Traditional Group and 50 students to the Technology Group. The Traditional Group uses traditional books, paper and pencil notes, study guides, practice quizzes, highlighters, etc. The Technology Group uses electronic textbooks, online study guides, online quizzes, etc. The amount of time students spend studying is controlled for so that all students spend the same amount of time preparing. After a three-week study period, all students take an exam. Performance on the exam is measured with exam scores ranging from 0 to 100.
Question 13 (1 point)
At what level of measurement is exam performance being assessed?
Question 13 options:
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
Ratio
Question 14 (1 point)
The goal of this research is
Question 14 options:
To describe
To apply
To predict
To explain
Question 15 (2 points)
Explain your answer from the previous question. Why do you think that is the goal of this research?
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Question 16 (1 point)
Exam performance is the _______ in this study.
Question 16 options:
Dependent variable
Independent variable
Quasi-independent variable
Question 17 (1 point)
Study methods represent the _______ in this study?
Question 17 options:
Quasi-independent variable
Independent variable
Dependent variable
Question 18 (1 point)
In a follow up study, the researcher separated students by year in school as well as by study method. In other words, some freshmen were assigned to the traditional study method group and some to the technology. Same with sophomores, juniors, and seniors. All students regardless of year in school and study method were assessed with the same exam performance measure. What kind of variable would year of school represent?
Question 18 options:
Quasi Independent
Dependent
Independent
Question 19 (2 points)
Explain how an independent variable differs from a quasi-independent variable?
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Question 20 (2 points)
Explain why we use random assignment in experimental (explanatory) research.
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Question 21 (1 point)
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Ask me any questions you have about course content from the lectures. Are there sections you need more help on?
Let me know about any problems you had completing this assignment. What parts were difficult for you?
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