Deck 14: Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variance

Question 1

Which of the following would be an example of a design that examines the effects of gender and school type (i.e., elementary, middle, high school) on a scale of student attitudes toward learning?

A) Simple ANOVA
B) One-way ANOVA
C) 2 × 3 ANOVA
D) 3 × 3 ANOVA

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What type of ANOVA would examine effects of political party (e.g., Democrat, Republican, or Independent) affiliation and gender on attitudes toward the death penalty?

A) One-way ANOVA
B) 2 × 2 ANOVA
C) 3 × 2 ANOVA
D) Simple ANOVA

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What is an analysis that examines one dependent variable or outcome known as?

A) Multivariate ANOVA
B) Simple ANOVA
C) One-way ANOVA
D) Univariate ANOVA

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When analysis of data reveals a difference between levels of a factor, this is called the:

A) Interaction effect
B) Factor effect
C) Level effect
D) Main effect

Question 5

When applying an ANOVA where more than one factor or independent variable is tested, the researcher can determine the individual effects of each factor as well as?

A) The source of the effects to both factors
B) The negative effect of both factors
C) The simultaneous effects of both factors
D) The positive effect of both factors

Question 6

What type of design includes an ANOVA where one factor is repeated and the other is not?

A) Repeated design
B) Between-group design
C) Mixed design
D) One-way ANOVA

Question 7

What is an analysis that examines more than one dependent variable or outcome known as?

A) Multivariate ANOVA
B) Complicated ANOVA
C) Two-way ANOVA
D) Univariate ANOVA

Question 8

If your analysis notes that participants in a weight loss program differ in amount of weight lost based on the type of weight program used, what type of effect is this called?

A) Interaction effect
B) Factor effect
C) Level effect
D) Main effect

Question 9

Results from an ANOVA are placed in what type of table?

A) ANOVA table
B) Source table
C) Effects table
D) Output table

Question 10

If your analysis notes that participants in a weight loss program differ in amount of weight lost based on their gender, what type of effect is this called?

A) Interaction effect
B) Factor effect
C) Level effect
D) Main effect

Question 11

If you wanted to examine whether the attitude toward learning differs based on students' grade in school (i.e., 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) and level of parent involvement, what is the dependent variable of interest?

A) Grade level
B) Students' attitudes
C) Parents' attitudes
D) Level of parent involvement

Question 12

Which of the following would be an example of a design that examines the effects of gender and socioeconomic status (i.e., high and low) on a test of student achievement?

A) Simple ANOVA
B) One-way ANOVA
C) 2 × 2 ANOVA
D) 3 × 3 ANOVA

Question 13

When you have more than one factor, what type of ANOVA should be used?

A) One-way ANOVA
B) Multivariate ANOVA
C) Simple ANOVA
D) Factorial ANOVA

Question 14

How many null hypotheses are associated with a two-way ANOVA?

A) One
B) Two
C) Three
D) Four

Question 15

ANOVA with replication is also known as?

A) Repeated measures
B) Between-group design
C) Mixed design
D) One-way ANOVA

Question 16

When analysis of data reveals differential effects of one factor across levels of another factor, what is this called?

A) Interaction effect
B) Factor effect
C) Level effect
D) Main effect

Question 17

When you are interested in finding out if students' achievement level changes over time as a result of a reading intervention, what type of ANOVA would you use?

A) Repeated measures
B) Between-group design
C) Mixed design
D) One-way ANOVA

Question 18

What type of ANOVA is used when there is only one type of treatment or grouping factor with more than two levels?

A) One-way
B) Two-way
C) Three-way
D) Four-way

Question 19

If your analysis notes that males in a weight loss program differ from females in amount of weight lost based on the type of weight program used, what type of effect is this called?

A) Interaction effect
B) Factor effect
C) Level effect
D) Main effect

Question 20

When you want to examine the impact of more than one independent variable on the outcome variable, what type of ANOVA should be used?

A) Multivariate ANOVA
B) Factorial ANOVA
C) One-way ANOVA
D) Simple ANOVA

Question 21

What does a factorial 3 × 2 design represent? Give an example.

Question 22

Describe what is meant by a mixed ANOVA design?

Question 23

What is the difference between ANOVA: Two-Factor with Replication and ANOVA: Two-Factor without Replication?

Question 24

Create a 3 × 2 factorial design ANOVA.

Question 25

Write the null and research hypotheses to test both the main effects and interaction between gender and treatment (treatment = two levels).

Question 26

What is the main effect in factorial analysis of variance?

Question 27

What is the appropriate test statistic given the following situation? You are testing for differences between scores of the same participants; the participants are being tested more than once; you are dealing with two or more groups; and you are dealing with more than one factor or independent variable.

Question 28

What is a univariate analysis of variance?

Question 29

What is a multivariate analysis of variance?

Question 30

When should factorial ANOVA be used in place of simple ANOVA?