1st Edition Full Test Bank Chapter.19 Factor Analysis - Quant + Qual Psych Methods 1e | Test Bank Bourne by Victoria Bourne. DOCX document preview.
Chapter 19: Factor analysis
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 1
1) What is the primary aim of a factor analysis?
a. To judge the internal consistency of a measure
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b. To reduce the amount of variables in the dataset
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c. To test how predictor variables may explain variance in an outcome variable
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d. To test for nonlinear relationships between variables
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 2
2) What does the KMO statistic tell us?
a. Sampling adequacy
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b. Correlations between the items in the dataset
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c. Whether the data is normally distributed
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d. That there is no singularity in the data
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 3
3) What should be an appropriate value for the determinant?
a. Larger than 0.001
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b. Smaller than 0.0001
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c. Smaller than 0.00001
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d. Larger than 0.00001
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 4
4) A latent variable is…
a. a variable that is positively correlated with another.
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b. a variable that contributes a single composite variable.
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c. a single variable that consists of several related variables.
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d. a variable that is negatively correlated with another.
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 5
5) What statistic can be used to determine how many factors are present in our analysis?
a. Bartlett’s test of sphericity
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b. Eigenvalues
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c. Determinant
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d. KMO
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 6
6) A factor loading is the relationship…
a. between a single variable and the entire questionnaire.
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b. between a single factor and the entire questionnaire.
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c. between two factors
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d. between a single variable and an individual factor.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 7
7) Which of the following items could have a factor loading of -.689 which is labelled ‘empathy’?
a. I am often unaffected when people around me are upset.
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b. I rarely get angry.
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c. I am often in tune with other people’s emotions.
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d. When people are treated unfairly, I often get upset.
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 8
8) If we have a Cronbach’s alpha score of .801, then how should this be interpreted?
a. Good reliability
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b. Excellent reliability
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c. Questionable reliability
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d. Acceptable reliability
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 9
9) If we wanted to know if the reliability would improve if an item was removed from the measure then…
a. we should look at the corrected item-total correlation.
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b. we should look at the scale if item deleted score.
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c. we should run as many reliability analyses as possible and take the highest scoring outcome.
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d. we should run a factor analysis.
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 10
10) When running a factor analysis, what type of rotation method should be selected?
a. None
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b. Quartimax
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c. Varimax
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d. Direct Oblimin
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 11
11) For the worksheet analysis, what is the determinant value, and has the assumption been met or not?
a. p < .001 and the assumption has been met
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b. p < .001 and the assumption has not been met
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c. .573 and the assumption has not been met
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d. .573 and the assumption has been met
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 12
12) Looking at the communalities, which variable shares the most variance with the entire dataset?
a. Backwards digit
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b. Rhyme detection
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c. Digit recall
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d. Consonant detection
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Title: Chapter 19 Question 13
13) How many factors were extracted from the analysis?
a. 6
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b. 4
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c. 2
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d. 3
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 14
14) What was the total amount of variance explained by the two factors together, after rotation?
a. 52.737%
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b. 27.234%
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c. 25.502%
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d. 1.530%
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Type: multiple choice question
Title: Chapter 19 Question 15
15) Looking at the factor loadings, which item loads onto both factors?
a. Rhyme detection
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b. Sentence repetition
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c. Consonant detection
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d. Digit recall
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