Lab quiz 1 Flashcards
Which tool that you learned thus far will let you calculate all 3 measures of central tendency?
Frequencies
I collected data on people’s favorite streaming services: Netflix, Hulu, Prime, or Disney+. How can I get SPSS to recognize these options?
Values
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
30 ; 50
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?
Nominal
If I want to create a scatterplot in SPSS, I need to be sure that my variables are set at ____
Scale
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?
Descriptives
How many people watched more than 4 hours of news on TV?
4
What percentage of people watched less than 4 hours of news on TV?
60%
Which correlations are significant?
- Final exam score, coffee consumption
- Number of review sessions attended; Final exam score
- GPA, coffee consumption
Any below .05
How to report letters in APA style
- M, SD, r, p, n.s (in italics)
- numbers, equal signs, commas, and parentheses are not
How many decimal place reported in APA style ?
All reported to 2 (even if zero)
When do we use leading zeros in APA style?
Standard deviation and mean
SD and M
How is significance reported in APA style
- Significant: p < .05
- Not significant: n.s.
Where are spaces in APA style
- Around operators: = & <
- After commas
How are degrees of freedom calculated in APA style?
N-2
How much detail needs to be provided for each variable in APA style
- Report scales
If positive correlation, is it more or less (r = .841)
More TV, More reading
If negative correlation, is it more or less (r= -.325)
More TV, Less listened to the radio
What does an APA introduction for this output look like
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.
How to report the type of analysis?
A series of bivariate correlations were conducted on their responses
How to report the correlation between reading news articles and watching the news on TV (significant)
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)
How to report the correlation between Listening to news coverage on radio and watching the news on TV (not significant)
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)
How to report the correlation between Listening to news coverage on radio and reading news articles (not significant)
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).
How can you create a histogram with a noraml curve in SPSS?
Frequencies
In order to create a line of fit, the levels of meausrements for teh varibales should be set at
Scale
Which tool in SPSS would allow me to divide my data in quartiles?
Frequencies
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?
Frequencies
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?
There should be 3 colums and 29 rows
How to determine consistency in ratings
Closest to 1
What is the conceptual formula for
