Suppose you are interested in how participants behave in dif

Suppose you are interested in how participants behave in different color conditions. You select 30 participants and assign them to one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to the color of the walls. One room is white, one is pale blue, and a third is bright red. Each participant is served a meal of a hamburger and french fries, and you then measure how long it takes them to finish eating. What would be the independent variable in this study?

Select one:

a. the color of the room

b. the time it takes to finish eating

c. the behavior

d. 30 participants

A relationship is not present when

Select one:

a.

each unique Y score is paired with one and only one X score.

b.

as the Y scores increase, the X scores also increase.

c.

as the Y scores decrease, the X scores increase.

d.

virtually the same set of Y scores is paired with every X score.

If you want to summarize the characteristics of our PSY 3801 class to your friend, you should use

Select one:

a.

an experimental design.

b.

a correlational design.

c.

inferential statistics.

d.

descriptive statistics.

In statistics, a population is

Select one:

a.

the entire group to which a law of nature applies.

b.

a subset of a group to which a law of nature applies.

c.

all the people in the world.

d.

an infinite number that cannot be counted.

Solution

Answers:

c. the behavior

A relationship is not present when:

d. Virtually the same set of Y scores is paired with every X score.

If you want to summarize the characteristics of our PSY 3801 class to your friend, you should use

a. An experimental design.

In statistics, a population is

a. The entire group to which a law of nature applies.

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