Psychology Paper 2 (Research Methods Part 2)

Mean, median and mode refer to which TWO?

• Descriptive statistics
• Inferential statistics
• Central tendency
• Measures of dispersion

This is where you add up all scores, the divide by the total number

• Mean
• Mode
• Median
• Range

This measure of central tendency is the most representative (takes into account all the score)

• Mean
• Mode
• Median
• Standard deviation

THESE TWO measures of central tendency is not affected by extremem scores

• Mean
• Mode
• Median
• Standard deviation

Which of the following are measures of dispersion?

• Mean
• Range
• Standard deviation
• Mode

A large standard deviation means…

• More spread out data
• Less spread out data
• More consistent data
• Less validity

It is worked out by subtracting the lowest score from the highest score

• Median
• Mean
• Standard deviation
• Range

Which TWO can be distorted by a single extreme value?

• Median

• Standard deviation

• Range

• Mode

Which graph for discrete, categorical data?

• Bar chart
• Histogram
• Scattergraph

Which graph for continuous data, where the bars touch each other?

• Bar chart
• Histogram
• Scattergraph