Study Guide - Chapter 10, Study notes of Psychology

Download Study Guide - Chapter 10 and more Study notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Study Guide - Chapter 10 - Section 1 543 1. What is an example of a statistical question versus one that is not. 2. What is meant by the variability of data? 3. Name and describe the four types of variability. 4. What is a population versus a sample? 5. When are generalizations about a population valid? 6. What is meant by "data from a random sample." 544 7. Why would the manufacturers in the story about Billy counting peanuts not be in trouble if more than half the nuts were peanuts, unlike the advertised statements? 8. What is the four-step framework for solving statisical problems? 9. When formulating questions, what must be considered? (read also on page 546) 545 10. Read the schoolbook page to make sure you understand the three bold-faced words and the difference between a random sample and one that is not a random sample. 546 11. What is the difference between a biased and a fair sample? 12. Do the "Now Try This" 10-1 13. Read example 10-1 and the paragraph following. Why may it not be a good idea to give a list of movies that your surveyed people could choose from? 14. Start reading about collecting data and answer the questions about it from pg. 548. 547 15. Study the school book page and be able to answer the questions about biased and unbiased. 548 16. What are various ways to collect data? 17. In what ways can data be analyzed? 549 18. What does it mean to "interpret the results?" Suggested exercises to do: Assessment 10-1 A: # 4-6, 8, 10, 11, Asssessment 10-1B #1, 4-5 Mathematical Connections 10-1 #7. Chapter 10- Section 2 550 1. What is a graph? 551 2. Why is the boss so mad in the "Herman" cartoon? 3. What do the Department of Labor bar graphs tell us about education? 552 4. What is the difference between categorical and numerical data? 5. What is a pictograph? 6. What is a frequency table? (You may go online to the online textbook and view classroom videos that deal with teaching this to children. Two are on this page.) 553 7. What is a category in regard to graphs? What is a legend? 8. What is a dot plot or line plot? 554 9. In the dot plot on the top of this page, what are the values of the outliers? In what 5-point interval is there a "cluster"? Where are the gaps? What value is the mode? 10. What does the "squiggle" in Figure 10-4 mean? 11. What is a stem-and-leaf plot? 555 12. In the "scores for Abel's class", what does 7|0 mean? 13. Do the "Now Try This 10-2" using the seven steps above it. 556 14. Study the back-to-back stem-and-leaf plots at the top of page and answer the "Now Try This 10-3" 15. Study example 10-2. You may watch the videos online that is in the multimedia textbook. 557 16. What is a grouped frequency table? 17. What is a histogram? 558 18. What advantage does the stem-and-leaf plot have over the histogram? 19. Do the "Now Try This 10-4" 20. What is a bar graph? You may go online to the multimedia text and do the E-manipulative activity on this page. 21. What is the distinguishing feature between histograms and bar graphs? 559 22. Study the student page and be able to answer all questions on it. 560 23. What kind of graph is in figure 10-10 at the top of this page? 24. Distinguish between percentage bar graphs and stacked bar graphs. 561 25. What are circle graphs or pie charts? 26. Go to the online text and view the multimedia presentations. 27. How many degrees are in the whole circle? What would be the measure of the central angle that would represent 40 percent of the circle?