Statistics A Gentle Introduction 3rd Edition By Coolidge – Test Bank

Statistics A Gentle Introduction 3rd Edition By Coolidge – Test Bank

Chapter 4 Test Questions

1.On the Karen Horney–Coolidge Tridimensional Inventory (note: Karen Horney was a neo-Freudian), a student receives a raw score of 9 on the Compliance Dimension and a raw score of 12 on the Malevolence facet of Aggression. The student

a.was more malevolent than compliant

b.scored higher on the Malevolence facet than on the Compliance dimension

c.scored nearly equally on the two measures given the possibility of change

d.it cannot be determined

2. Which of the following is not a standard score?

a.SAT

b.GRE

c.IQ

d.all of the above are standard scores

3.What essential properties are necessary to make a score a standard score?

a.mean and standard deviation

b.median and standard deviation

c.standard deviation and variance

c.a normative sample of at least 30 participants

4.A T score has a mean and standard deviation of

a.100 and 15

b.50 and 10

c.25 and 5

d.500 and 100

5.To create a single standard score, one must take any number in a set of numbers and ___________ the mean of the set of numbers and ___________ by the standard deviation of those numbers.

a.add; divide

b.subtract; add

c.subtract; divide

d.add; multiply

6.Which of the following T scores has a z score of 0.00?

a.10

b.20

c.30

d.40

e.50

7.For the previous set of scores, which score is at the 50th percentile?

a.10

b.20

c.30

d.40

e.50

8.For a person with an IQ of 145, his or her score would be _________ standard deviations above the normative mean.

a.1

b.2

c.3

d.4