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Module 5 Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  It can cause people to interrogate a study’s validities.
B  It can make journalists look bad.
C  It can lead people to think journalists are scientists.
D  It can lead people to value one study over decades of previous research.
Question #3
A  Dr. Finn’s study in which he measured job commitment in a group of Japanese factory workers and in a group of Mexican factory workers
B  Dr. Stabler’s study in which he measured people’s frequency of playing video games in ninth grade and their aggressive behaviors in 12th grade
C  Dr. Tutola’s study in which he measured the daily stress of a group of married men and the daily happiness of their spouses
D  Dr. Benson’s study in which she measured people’s spatial manipulation ability in August and measured their ability again in May after they had taken two semesters of art classes
Question #4
A  Effect size and statistical significance are synonymous terms.
B  Larger effect sizes are advantageous for statistical significance.
C  Statistical significance alone is sufficient to indicate effect size.
D  An association’s effect size has no effect on statistical significance.
Question #5
A  All else being equal, there will be greater likelihood of a finding being important in the real world.
B  All else being equal, there will be greater likelihood of finding a zero in the 95% CI.
C  All else being equal, there will be a greater likelihood of finding a non-statistically significant relationship.
D  All else being equal, there will be greater likelihood of establishing construct validity.
Question #6
A  A list of the specific predictor variables used.
B  A list of the specific criterion variables used.
C  A table with the betas and their confidence intervals.
D  The phrase “controlled for” when describing the findings.
Question #7
A  manipulating a variable at two points in time
B  measuring the same variables at two points in time
C  measuring at least four variables at one time
D  measuring different age groups at two different times
Question #8
A  r = -.44, 95% CI [–.32, –.56]
B  r = .32, 95% CI [.03, .61]
C  r = –.28, 95% CI [–.06, –.50]
D  r = .26, 95% CI [–.08, .60]
Question #9
A  They are the same: A moderator indicates that the association is spurious.
B  They are different: A moderator indicates that the same association exists within subgroups, while a spurious association indicates that the associations differ for subgroups.
C  They are different: A moderator only involves one variable, while a spurious association involves both variables.
D  They are different: A moderator indicates the association is not spurious.
Question #11
A  a scatterplot
B  a bar graph
C  a curvilinear association
D  an outlier
Question #12
A  the number of observations that make each bar
B  a difference in the height between the bars
C  the number of bars in the graph
D  the direction of the bars
Question #13
A  autocorrelations
B  multivariate correlations
C  cross-lag correlations
D  cross-sectional correlations
Question #14
A  causal inferences; made
B  hypotheses; tested
C  covariance; established
D  construct validity; interrogated
Question #15
A  directionality
B  third variable
C  covariance
D  association
Question #17
A  number of outliers and direction of the association
B  sample size and effect size
C  sample size and number of variables analyzed
D  direction of the association and strength of the association
Question #23
A  The association found in her study could probably generalize to people living in other capital cities (e.g., Sacramento, California).
B  The association found in her study could probably generalize to elderly persons living in nursing homes.
C  The association found in her study could probably generalize to young adults.
D  The association found in her study could probably generalize to elderly people in other large cities in the South.
Question #26
A  null effect.
B  restriction of range.
C  spurious data.
D  an outlier effect.
Question #27
A  The effect size should be considered, but tests of statistical significance should not.
B  The findings should be replicated in another population.
C  The study must be done again using the same participants.
D  The association should be rejected as inconclusive.
Question #28
A  mediation
B  third variables
C  controlling variables
D  moderation
Question #29
A  The third variable must be related to both of the measured variables in the original association.
B  The third variable must be a categorical variable.
C  The third variable must be measured on the same scale as the original measured variables.
D  The third variable must have a positive relationship with the two measured variables in the original association.
Question #30
A  He should find that the interval is wider for his second study.
B  He should find that the interval contains a zero for his first study.
C  He should find that the interval contains a zero for his second study.
D  He should find that the interval is wider for his first study.
Question #31
A  both betas and correlation coefficients can tell you something about the strength of a relationship.
B  both betas and correlation coefficients can tell you something about the direction of a relationship.
C  betas from an analysis can be compared with other beta coefficients from the same analysis just as correlation coefficients can.
D  betas describe the relationship between two variables exactly as correlations coefficients do.
Question #33
A  running another correlational study but with more people
B  specifying a mechanism or explanation for the causal relationship
C  replicating all of the original studies
D  examining the dates of the studies to look for temporal precedence
Question #34
A  The 95% CI for that beta does not contain zero.
B  The 95% CI for that beta is not significant.
C  The 95% CI for that beta contains zero.
D  The 95% CI for that beta indicates a positive association.
Question #35
A  control
B  dependent
C  predictor
D  independent