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Psych 2220 Exam 1 Review Guide

- Exam 1 for Psych 2220 will take place on Friday, September 15 during class. It will consist of approximately 35 multiple choice questions to be completed within the class period. - The exam will cover chapters 1-5 of the textbook and accompanying lecture notes, activities, and homework assignments. Important topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, types of variables, reliability and validity, and measures of central tendency and variability. - Students should arrive on time with their Buck ID, #2 pencils, and a calculator (not a phone or computer). The review guide provides example topics that may appear on the exam to help students study. Additional practice questions can be found throughout the textbook and in the append

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Psych 2220 Exam 1 Review Guide

- Exam 1 for Psych 2220 will take place on Friday, September 15 during class. It will consist of approximately 35 multiple choice questions to be completed within the class period. - The exam will cover chapters 1-5 of the textbook and accompanying lecture notes, activities, and homework assignments. Important topics include descriptive and inferential statistics, types of variables, reliability and validity, and measures of central tendency and variability. - Students should arrive on time with their Buck ID, #2 pencils, and a calculator (not a phone or computer). The review guide provides example topics that may appear on the exam to help students study. Additional practice questions can be found throughout the textbook and in the append

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Psych 2220

Exam 1 Review Guide


Exam 1 during class on Friday, September 15.
Instructions
• Arrive on time
• Bring your Buck ID
• Bring a couple of #2 pencils
• Bring a calculator (not a phone or computer)

• The exam consists of approximately 35 multiple


choice items.
– There are five response options per question (A-E).
• You will have the full class period to complete the
exam.
Page 1 of the Exam (Draft)
Materials Provided as Part of the Exam
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N modify the formula or
remember other formulae
to correctly complete
certain problems.
Chapters and Materials
• Exam 1 covers chapters 1 – 5 of the textbook
and all accompanying lecture notes, class
activities, and homework assignments.
– All topics are eligible to appear on the exam,
though not all will actually appear.
– Topics on the following slides are not an
exhaustive list, but, rather, an effort to help you
study most of the important topics.
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 1
• Descriptive vs. inferential statistics
• Populations vs. samples
• Random sampling (also covered in chapter 5)
• Types of variables
– Discrete vs. continuous
– Scales of measurement
• Nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio
• Scale variables
– Independent, dependent, and confounding
variables
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 1
• Reliability and validity
• Correlational studies
• Experiments
– Random assignment
– Within-groups vs. between-groups designs
• Outliers
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 2
• Frequency tables
– Grouped frequency tables
• Histograms
• Frequency polygons
• Stem-and-leaf plots
• Normal vs. skewed distributions
– Types of skew
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 3
• Problematic ways of graphing data
– Biased scale lie
– Sneaky sample lie
– Interpolation lie
– Extrapolation lie
– Inaccurate values lie
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 3
• Scatterplots
– Linear and non-linear relationships
• Line graphs
• Bar graphs
– Pareto chart
• Pictorial graphs
• When to use different types of graphs
• Chartjunk
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 4
• Measures of central tendency
– Mean
– Median
– Mode
• How to calculate measures of central
tendency
• Properties and advantages/disadvantages of
different measures of central tendency
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 4
• Measures of variability
– Range
– Variance
– Standard deviation
– Interquartile range
• How to calculate measures of variability
• What variances and standard deviations
represent
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 5
• Random and non-random samples
• Replication
• Confirmation bias and illusory correlations
• Probabilities
– Expected-relative-frequency probability
– Independent events
– Mutually exclusive events
– Unions (Disjunctions)
– Intersections (Conjunctions)
– Additive and Multiplicative Laws (simple cases)
– Conditional probabilities
Some Topics to Know – Ch. 5
• Hypothesis testing
– General process of hypothesis testing
– Null vs. alternative (research) hypotheses
– What conclusions can we reach on the basis of our
statistics when conducting a hypothesis test?
• What a rejection of the null hypothesis means and how
conditional probabilities are relevant
• Type I and Type II errors
• Power
Questions?
Extra Practice
• If you are looking for extra practice, there are
useful “check your learning” questions
throughout each textbook chapter and review
questions at the end of each chapter.
– Answers for “check your learning questions” can
be found in Appendix D.
– Answers for odd-numbered end-of-chapter
questions can be found in Appendix C.

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