exam 3

Question 1

nominal scale

Answer 1

permits comparison of only sameness or difference thought of a classification

Question 2

ordinal scale

Answer 2

indication of rank-order, allows for comparison but does not qualify

Question 3

interval scale

Answer 3

contains info about width and order, but a score of 0 does not represent absence of value

Question 4

ratio scale

Answer 4

has a true 0, contains characteristics of all other measurement scales

Question 5

construct validity

Answer 5

likelihood of concept existing and being measured

Question 6

concurrent validity

Answer 6

comparing validity versus some criterion measurement

Question 7

content validity

Answer 7

degree to which measuring instrument or process contains tasks that provide evidence about traits being measured

Question 8

social and emotional support has been defined as

Answer 8

a support system formed by interpersonal relationships

Question 9

name the four major functions of social and emotional support

Answer 9

emotional
informational
instrumental
appraisal

Question 10

describe what we know about the association between social and emotional support and different health constructs

Answer 10

if you have social and emotional support health risks decrease or you have a lower risk of disease

Question 11

removal of physical inactivity has the larges effect on reducing the likelihood of ______

Answer 11

colon cancer

Question 12

power

Answer 12

increases the probablility of rejecting the null hypothesis when the null hypothesis is actually false

Question 13

if something is significant it is ____

Answer 13

probably true

Question 14

the ___ ___ and ____ tell you about the central tendency of the data

Answer 14

mean median mode

Question 15

the ____ and ___ are determined by examining the deviation of each score from the mean of all the scores

Answer 15

variance and x-score

Question 16

type one error

Answer 16

we reject the null hypotheses in our sample, even though the null hypothesis is true for the population

Question 17

type two error

Answer 17

we retain the null hypothesis in our sample even though the null hypothesis is false for the population

Question 18

p

Answer 18

we are making a type I error less than 5 times out of 100