Deck 4: Introducing Spss

Question 1

The "variable view" in SPSS is used to…

A) input the raw data.
B) define the variables you have data for.
C) compute new variables.
D) run statistical tests.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In the "data view" tab, how should one participant's data be expressed?

A) In one column
B) Across multiple columns
C) Across multiple rows
D) In one row

Answer 2

D

Question 3

In the "variable view" tab, what is the column 'values' for?

A) To define the groups of a categorical (nominal) variable
B) To define the max and min scores of a continuous variable
C) To signify how important that variable is to the data
D) To define the number assigned to missing data

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following should be defined as a 'scale' variable in SPSS?

A) Gender
B) Hair colour
C) IQ scores
D) Favourite type of chocolate

Question 5

If I had collected data regarding the number of hours someone sleeps on the average night, which of the following would not be an acceptable way of naming this variable in SPSS?

A) Sleep
B) Hours_of_sleep
C) Hoursofsleep
D) Hours of sleep

Question 6

If we wanted to test whether our data was normally distributed, what should we run in SPSS?

A) Standard deviation
B) Descriptives
C) Kolmogorov-Smirnov
D) Scatterplot graph

Question 7

If SPSS gives us a p value of .000, how should we write this up in a report?

A) p<.001
B) p=.000
C) p>.000
D) p=.001

Question 8

If we wanted to create an average score for a participant based on their responses to an anxiety questionnaire, where in SPSS can we do this?

A) Analyze > Descriptives
B) Transform > Compute Variable
C) Analyze > Frequencies
D) Data > Select Cases

Question 9

If we wanted to find the mean anxiety scores for males and females separately in our sample, how would we do this?

A) Run the descriptive statistics.
B) Use the select cases function, then run the frequency statistics.
C) Use the split file function, then run the frequency statistics.
D) Use the split file function, then run the descriptive statistics.

Question 10

What is displayed in the 'output' window in SPSS?

A) The variables that you have defined
B) The raw data
C) Any analyses or graphs you have asked SPSS to run
D) Instructional guides for how to run analyses

Question 11

From the worksheet exercises, how many participants with an Instagram account knew who the celebrity was?

A) 8
B) 9
C) 3
D) 20

Question 12

What was the mean openness score for the selfie images?

A) 4.10
B) 6.10
C) 2.918
D) 3.50

Question 13

What was the standard deviation for the agreeableness score for the posie image?

A) 6.10
B) 4.70
C) 3.069
D) 3.342

Question 14

Which personality trait had the largest mean difference score between the selfie and the posie images?

A) Extraversion
B) Agreeableness
C) Neuroticism
D) Conscientiousness

Question 15

Looking at the selfie scores, which of the personality trait scores had a distribution that was significantly different from a normal distribution?

A) Extraversion
B) Neuroticism
C) Agreeableness
D) Conscientiousness