PSY 202 Ch 8 Review

How do you know if a study behind a claim is correlational?

an association that involved exactly two variables is

____ are preferred when describing associations between two quantitative variables

r/correlation coefficient shows two main qualities:

the closer r is to 1 or -1, the ____ the relationship is

a ____ is preferred when looking at data that describes the relationship when at least one of the variables are categorical

the arithmetic average

if the data on a bar graph that compares categorical data shows two bars that are different heights, this shows a ____ between the two variables

An association claim is not supported by a particular kind of statistic or a particular kind of graph; it is supported by its ____, in which all variables are measured (correlational research).

with an association claim, the two most important validities to interrogate are ____.