Exam 16: Psychology Applied to Work

The difference between the highest and the lowest measurements is the ________.

Measurements of age use a(n) ________ scale.

About ________ percent of scores fall between 3 standard deviations above and 3 standard deviations below the mean in a normal distribution.

A pattern of dots indicating scores on two different characteristics is called a ________.

A statistical measure of the degree to which two variables are associated is called a ________.

For the numbers 100, 90, 80, 60, the range is ________.

In a frequency histogram, the intervals are usually marked along the ________.

The following distribution is ________.

Which of the following questions would be most appropriate in a correlational study?

The mean and the mode fall at the same point in ________ distributions.

A significance level of .001 means that the odds that the results of an experiment are due to chance are ________.

Ashley has measured heights of basketball players at her school. In order to fully describe the distribution of her data, Ashley will need to determine the central tendency and ___________ in the players' heights.

About 99 percent of scores fall between ________ standard deviation(s) above and below the mean in a normal distribution.

Correlations ________ causality.

If you know that the mean is greater than the median, you can predict that the ________.

In a set of test scores, the mean is 10 and the standard deviation is 2. With these two numbers we know that 95% of the scores fall between ________.

The auto theft rates of various cities in a state (for example: 15 thefts per 10,000 population) is an example of a(n) ________ scale.

A perfect negative correlation occurs when the dots on a scatter plot form a ________.

The scores gather at one end of a ________ distribution.

We say that a curve is skewed to the right if the ________.