A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windows 2nd Edition by Leonard Stern

Exercise 4

Male and female volunteers are asked to solve a problem while given either a distracting or no distracting task to perform. The time it takes each person to solve the problem is recorded. The data file Problem.sav available on the publisher's website for this text at the address http://www.pearsonhighered.com/stern2e shows, for each participant, the time to solve the problem, whether the person is given a distracting task or not, and the person's gender in the variables dv , condition , and gender , respectively. Prepare a graph showing mean problem solving time as a function of distraction condition (displayed on the x-axis) and gender.