Statistics and Research Methods Quiz

Histograms should be used exclusively to display ______ data.

• nominal

• qualitative

• quantitative

• ordinal

When Yolanda uses information from her sample to estimate characteristics of a population, she is using ______.

• population parameters

• descriptive statistics

• inferential statistics

• raw data

We describe and define a phenomenon using abstract terms in ______ definitions.

• conceptual

• operational

• key term

• simple

Karen discovers that the more relationship partners help each other do daily activities, the happier they tend to be, r = .61. Karen can confidently say helping ______.

• causes couples’ relationships to become happier

• is negative related to couple happiness

• improves couple happiness

• and couple happiness are strongly related

When participants are selected because they have or have not experienced something unique in the real world (e.g., they have lived in a homeless shelter/not lived in a shelter), researchers call this type of independent variable a(n) ______ treatment.

• selected

• experience

• subject

• natural

When describing a complicated idea, simply inserting as your own a couple sentences directly transcribed from one of your sources is ______.

• appropriate if you cite the article elsewhere

• appropriate but only if you cannot word the phrase differently

• paraphrasing

• plagiarism