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6. which tests has the observed value < critical to be significant

  • wilcoxon matched pairs
  • unrelated T test
  • chi square
  • spearman's rho

7. which of these is nominal data?

  • self ratings by participants on a scale of 1 (very good) to 10 (very poor)
  • ratings by an independent observer on a scale of 1 (very good) to 10 (very poor)
  • Classifying participants as 'good', 'average' or 'poor'
  • use of a stopwatch to record reaction time

8. What comes first in an academic reference?

  • name of journal
  • publisher
  • surname of researcher
  • year of publication

9. what type of observation is conducted in a real-life setting where participants are not aware they are being studied?

  • naturalistic
  • secretive
  • ecological
  • realistic

10. which of these best describes a quasi experiment?

  • the DV is directly manipulated
  • the DV is not directly manipulated
  • the IV is not directly manipulated
  • the IV is directly manipulated

11. what data and design do you need for spearman's rho

  • ordinal and repeated measurees
  • interval and correlation
  • Ordinal and correlation
  • nominal and correlation

12. which of these does not appear in a reference using the Harvard system?

  • date of publication
  • location of research
  • title of research
  • name of researcher/s

13. what is the collective term for the mean, median and mode?

  • measures of central tendency
  • measures of central range
  • measures of central dispersion
  • measures of central significance

14. what type of data would you use for mann-whitney U test?

  • ordinal data
  • nominal data
  • interval data
  • correlation data