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1
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Which tool that you learned thus far will let you calculate all 3 measures of central tendency?

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Frequencies

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I collected data on people’s favorite streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Prime, or Disney+. How can I get SPSS to recognize these options?

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Values

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If I asked 50 people to participate in a study with 30 variables. When I set up my spreadsheet, I should have ___ columns and ____ rows

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30 ; 50

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I surveyed 100 people about their favorite cookies’ flavors. They could choose chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, oatmeal raisin, sugar, and smores. What should I put under measure when I create this in SPSS?

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Nominal

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5
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If I want to create a scatterplot in SPSS, I need to be sure that my variables are set at ____

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Scale

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I calculated the means and standard deviations. When I did, the statistics were listed as columns and the variables as rows. What procedure did I use?

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Descriptives

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7
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How many people watched more than 4 hours of news on TV?

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4

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What percentage of people watched less than 4 hours of news on TV?

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60%

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9
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Which correlations are significant?

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  • Final exam score, coffee consumption
  • Number of review sessions attended; Final exam score
  • GPA, coffee consumption

Any below .05

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How to report letters in APA style

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  • M, SD, r, p, n.s (in italics)
  • numbers, equal signs, commas, and parentheses are not
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How many decimal place reported in APA style ?

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All reported to 2 (even if zero)

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When do we use leading zeros in APA style?

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Standard deviation and mean

SD and M

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How is significance reported in APA style

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  • Significant: p < .05
  • Not significant: n.s.
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Where are spaces in APA style

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  • Around operators: = & <
  • After commas
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How are degrees of freedom calculated in APA style?

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N-2

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16
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How much detail needs to be provided for each variable in APA style

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  • Report scales
17
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If positive correlation, is it more or less (r = .841)

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More TV, More reading

18
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If negative correlation, is it more or less (r= -.325)

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More TV, Less listened to the radio

19
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What does an APA introduction for this output look like

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Use the original prompt:

A researcher is interested in how people learn about the news. He polls 10 people on how many hours of news coverage they watch on TV. Spend reading online news articles and listening to news coverage on the radio each week.

20
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How to report the type of analysis?

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A series of bivariate correlations were conducted on their responses

21
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How to report the correlation between reading news articles and watching the news on TV (significant)

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Results suggest that those who spend more time watching the news on TV (M = 5.95, SD = 7.08) and spend more time reading news articles online (M = 4.70, SD = 3.43) than those who spend less time watching the news on TV (r(8) = .84, p < .05)

22
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How to report the correlation between Listening to news coverage on radio and watching the news on TV (not significant)

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While those who spent more time watching the news on TV spent less time listening to news coverage on the radio (M = 1.50, SD = 1.58) the relationship did not reach significance (r(8) = -.33, n.s)

23
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How to report the correlation between Listening to news coverage on radio and reading news articles (not significant)

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Those who spent more time reading news articles online spent less time listening to news coverage on the radio, but the relationship was not significant (r(8) = -.36, n.s).

24
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How can you create a histogram with a noraml curve in SPSS?

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Frequencies

25
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In order to create a line of fit, the levels of meausrements for teh varibales should be set at

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Scale

26
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Which tool in SPSS would allow me to divide my data in quartiles?

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Frequencies

27
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If parking services wanted to determine which parking lots are most popular at noon, they would need to count how many cars were parked in each lot. Which function in SPSS would they use to determine which parking lot was most crowded?

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Frequencies

28
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A researcher asked 29 people how many hours of TV they watch each day, their age, and the number of hours they work each week. How many columns and rows of data should be entered into SPSS?

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There should be 3 colums and 29 rows

29
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How to determine consistency in ratings

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Closest to 1

30
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What is the conceptual formula for

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