11 Psychology Skills Review

Which measure of central tendency requires you to arrange the values of a data set in ascending order?

• Range

• Mean

• Median

Sally records the colours of the cars that drive by her house and stops after seeing 10 cars. What type of data did she gather?

• Quantitative

• Qualitative

• Discrete

Which option best defines central tendency?

• Finding the middle number.

• Finding a single value that can represent a selected group

• Figuring out the value that correlates/has a relationship with all the other values in the set.

Which of the following is an example of random sampling?

• Choosing every second student on the role as participants for a science experiment.

• Only using girls as participants for an activity.

• Picking a name out of a hat to answer questions.

Which of the following IS NOT an example of cluster sampling?

• Choosing 2 people of each year level.

• Choosing the first 10 students in front of you.

• Choosing 5 students of every school in town.

Which of the following is a sampling method?

• group

• sample

• stratified

• roulette

Which of the following is an example of a sample that would be the whole population?

• Election

• Census

• Local research investigation

• School survey

In Psychology data is collected from a ....

• Sample

• Population

How is a hypothesis tested?

• Through data collection and inferential statistical testing

• From a prediction and an assumption of the most probable conclusion

• Through data collection and statistical description

• Through a conclusion

In an experiment, the ___________ variable is tested by the researcher to observe its effect(s) on the ___________ variable.

• Independent; dependent

• Extraneous; confounding

• Dependent; independent

• Independent; extraneous