Presenting Correlational Studies Ch.20 Test Bank Answers

Chapter 20: Presenting correlational studies

Test Bank

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 1

1) Which of the following would be an appropriate one-tailed hypothesis for a correlational design between empathy and donating behaviour?

a. There will be no relationship between empathy and donating behaviour.

b. There will be a significant relationship between empathy and donating behaviour.

c. There will be a significant positive relationship between empathy and donating behaviour.

d. Empathy will positively effect donating behaviour.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 2

2) If a study is using a multiple regression to examine how many hours studying, quality of sleep, gender, and class attendance predict scores on a maths test whilst controlling for IQ scores, then how many hypotheses should we have?

a. 3

b. 5

c. 1

d. 2

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 3

3) When describing a questionnaire used in your study, this should be outlined in the…

a. participants section.

b. design and analysis section.

c. materials section.

d. procedure section.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 4

4) When reporting Cronbach’s alpha, this should typically be reported in the…

a. introduction.

b. discussion.

c. results.

d. method.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 5

5) Which of the following is not true when producing a matrix table to display the zero order correlations?

a. You should not include the outcome variable.

b. You should not include any binary variables.

c. You should avoid repeating information.

d. You could denote the significance of any correlation with a .

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 6

6) In what order should regression models be written up?

a. Assumptions, individual predictors, models

b. Individual predictors, models, assumptions

c. Models, individual predictors, assumptions

d. Assumptions, models, individual predictors

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 7

7) When writing up the individual predictors you should…

a. only report the predictors that are significant.

b. interpret the direction of all predictors.

c. report the predictors in order of significance.

d. interpret the direction only for the significant predictors.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 8

8) If we were to find that neuroticism is a significant predictor of believing in conspiracy theories, then how should this finding be graphed?

a. Bar chart with error bars

b. Scatterplot with line of best fit

c. Box plot

d. Pie chart

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 9

9) The first paragraph of a discussion should…

a. offer a brief summary of the key findings.

b. discuss what the importance of the findings are.

c. offer avenues for future research.

d. mention that a correlational study cannot imply causation.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 20 Question 10

10) When writing up the model summary, which of the following should be used to report the amount of variance explained?

a. β

b. t score

c. adjusted R²

d. F score