Summarising Data and Inferential Statistics

Last updated: 31/01/2022
AQA A Level Psychology Research Methods Summarising Data and Inferential Statistics
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  1. Which of these is a common way of presenting qualitative data?

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  2. Which of these names is given to data drawn directly from a research project?

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  3. Which of these is likely to be shown in table form?

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  4. What name is given to the horizontal axis on a line graph?

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  5. What name is given to the vertical axis on a line graph?

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  6. Which of these charts is generally used to show continuous data?

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  7. Which of these charts is generally used to show non-continuous data?

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  8. Which of these graphs can be used to show if two variables are related?

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  9. Which of these graphs makes use of “class intervals”?

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  10. Which of these phrases best describes results which could be down to random chance?

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  11. What is the standard level of significance used for most scientific tests

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  12. What name is given to the process of rejecting a null hypothesis when it is actually true?

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  13. What name is given to the process of accepting a null hypothesis when it is not true?

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  14. Which of these is a type 1 error?

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  15. Which of these is a type 2 error?

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  16. What name is given to the value obtained once statistical tests have been carried out?

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  17. What name is given to the test used when a researcher has predicted a correlation but not a direction?

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  18. What name is given to the test used when a researcher has predicted a correlation and a direction?

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  19. What name is given to data which is collected about basic and discreet categories?

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  20. What name is given to data which is placed in rank order?

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  21. What name is given to data on a scale where each unit is the same size?

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