ACC 543 Exercise 15-6b

  This work comprises ACC 543 Exercise 15-6b
Psychology - Psychological Statistics

 Raw score



 Z score





 68.0



 ?





 ?



 –1.6





 82.0



 ?





 ?



 1.8





 69.0



 ?





 ?



 –0.5





 85.0



 ?





 ?



 1.7





 72.0



 ?






 3.  Questions 3a through 3d are based on a distribution of scores with  and the standard Draw a small picture to help you see what is required.

 a.  What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 70 and 80?

 b.  What is the probability of a score falling above a raw score of 80?

 c.  What is the probability of a score falling between a raw score of 81 and 83?

 d.  What is the probability of a score falling below a raw score of 63?

 4.  Jake needs to score in the top 10% in order to earn a physical fitness certificate. The class mean is 78 and the standard deviation is 5.5. What raw score does he need?

 5.  Who is the better student, relative to his or her classmates? Use the following table for information.





 Math











 Class mean



 81









 Class standard deviation



 2









 Reading











 Class mean



 87









 Class standard deviation



 10









 Raw scores













 Math score



 Reading score



 Average





 Noah



 85



 88



 86.5





 Talya



 87



 81



 84





 Z- scores

















 Math score



 Reading score



 Average





 Noah











 Talya











 From Salkind (2011). Copyright © 2012 SAGE. All Rights Reserved. Adapted with permission.
 Part B


 Some questions in Part B require that you access data from Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh. This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.
 The data for Exercises 6 and 7 are in the data file named Lesson 20 Exercise File 1. Answer Exercises 6 and 7 based on the following research problem:
 Ann wants to describe the demographic characteristics of a sample of 25 individuals who completed a large-scale survey. She has demographic data on the participants’ gender (two categories), educational level (four categories), marital status (three categories), and community population size (eight categories).

 6.  Using IBM® SPSS® software, conduct a frequency analysis on the gender and marital status variables. From the output, identify the following:

 a.  Percent of men

 b.  Mode for marital status

 c.  Frequency of divorced people in the sample

 7.  Using IBM® SPSS® software, create a frequency table to summarize the data on the educational level variable.

 The data for Exercise 8 is available in the data file named Lesson 21 Exercise File 1.

 8.  David collects anxiety scores from 15 college students who visit the university health center during finals week. Compute descriptive statistics on the anxiety scores. From the output, identify the following:

 a.  Skewness

 b.  Mean

 c.  Standard deviation

 d.  Kurtosis

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