Question 1

Examples of ordinal scales include: ethnicity, sex, religion, or school classification.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Ted has developed a new test of mental ability.As he is giving it to participants, he begins to notice that nearly all of his participants are scoring on the lower end of his test.Ted realizes that he is experiencing a________ due to the difficulty of his test.

Accepted Answer

A) ceiling effect 
B) Yerkes-Dotson Law 
C) floor effect 
D) degree of response effect 
A) ceiling effect 
B) Yerkes-Dotson Law 
C) floor effect 
D) degree of response effect

Question 3

When a researcher classifies data on a scale that assumes equal distance between numbers, the researcher is using an)________ scale.

Accepted Answer

A) ordinal 
B) nominal 
C) ratio 
D) interval 
A) ordinal 
B) nominal 
C) ratio 
D) interval

Question 4

What type of scale is a researcher using when they collect demographic information such as ethnicity, religion, sex, or school classification?

Accepted Answer

A) ordinal 
B) nominal 
C) ratio 
D) interval 
A) ordinal 
B) nominal 
C) ratio 
D) interval

Examples of ordinal scales include: ethnicity, sex, religion, or school classification.

Ted has developed a new test of mental ability.As he is giving it to participants, he begins to notice that nearly all of his participants are scoring on the lower end of his test.Ted realizes that he is experiencing a________ due to the difficulty of his test.

When a researcher classifies data on a scale that assumes equal distance between numbers, the researcher is using an)________ scale.

What type of scale is a researcher using when they collect demographic information such as ethnicity, religion, sex, or school classification?

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Examples of ordinal scales include: ethnicity, sex, religion, or school classification.

Ted has developed a new test of mental ability.As he is giving it to participants, he begins to notice that nearly all of his participants are scoring on the lower end of his test.Ted realizes that he is experiencing a________ due to the difficulty of his test.

When a researcher classifies data on a scale that assumes equal distance between numbers, the researcher is using an)________ scale.

What type of scale is a researcher using when they collect demographic information such as ethnicity, religion, sex, or school classification?

Psychology As a Science

Goals and Methods of Psychology

Ethics

Nonexperimental Research Methods

Variables, Reliability, and Validity

Hypothesis Testing

Selection and Assignment of Participants

Controls and Threats to Interval Validity

Between Subjects Designs

Within Subjects Designs

Factorial Designs

Singe Case Designs

Hypothesis Testing Revisited and Interpreting Results

Apa Style: Sixth Edition

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