Wk 1 Statistical Reasoning In Psychology Practice Worksheet

Provide a response to the following prompts. Utilize electronic readings for the week and our textbook to help you answer appropriately.Cite/Reference all sources using proper APA 6^th edition format. Citing and referencing our course textbook is REQUIRED on ALL practice worksheets.

• Explain and provide an example for each of the following types of variables:
• The following are the speeds of 40 cars clocked by radar on a particular road in a 35 miles-per-hour zone on an afternoon:
• Raskauskas and Stoltz (2007) asked a group of 84 adolescents about their involvement in traditional and electronic bullying. The researchers defined electronic bullying as “…a means of bullying in which peers use electronics {such as text messages, emails, and defaming Web sites} to taunt, threaten, harass, and/or intimidate a peer” (p. 565). The table below is a frequency table showing the adolescents’ reported incidence of being victims or perpetrators or traditional and electronic bullying.
• Describe whether each of the following data words best describes descriptive statistics or inferential statistics. Explain your reasoning. (Note: You are not defining each of these words, but rather stating whether each word indicates whether you should use descriptive or inferential statistics or both).
• Regarding gun ownership in the United States, data from Gallup polls over a 40-year period show how gun ownership in the United States has changed. The results are described below, with the percentage of Americans who own guns given in each of the 5 decades.
• Refer to the Simpson-Southward et al. (2016) article from this week’s Electronic Reserve Readings. Was this an example of inferential statistics and research or descriptive statistics and research? Justify your response.
• Explain and provide an example for each of the following shapes of frequency distributions (a visual example may be helpful – ensure your answer is thorough).

• Nominal:
• Ordinal:
• Interval:
• Ratio scale:
• Continuous:
• Discrete:
• Quantitative:

30, 36, 42, 36, 30, 52, 36, 34, 36, 33, 30, 32, 35, 32, 37, 34, 36, 31, 35, 20

24, 46, 23, 31, 32, 45, 34, 37, 28, 40, 34, 38, 40, 52, 31, 33, 15, 27, 36, 40

Create a frequency table and a histogram. Then, describe the general shape of the distribution.