06 Jun psy 315 Chapter 3 problems
Question
Chapter 2, Practice Problems: 8, 11, 12
Chapter 3, Practice Problems: 14, 15, 25
8. In a study by Gonzaga et al. (2001), romantic couples answered questions about how much they loved their partner and also were videotaped while revealing something about themselves to their partner. The videotapes were later rated by trained judges for various signs of affiliation.Table 2–8 (reproduced from their Table 2) shows some of the results. Explain to a person who has never had a course in statistics the results for self-reported love for the partner and for the number of seconds “leaning toward the partner.”
Table 2–8 Mean Levels of Emotions and Cue Display in Study 1
| Women (n = 60) | Men (n = 60) | ||||
| Indicator | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Emotion reports | |||||
| Self-reported love | 5.02 | 2.16 | 5.11 | 2.08 | |
| Partner-estimated love | 4.85 | 2.13 | 4.58 | 2.20 | |
| Affiliation-cue display | |||||
| Affirmative head nods | 1.28 | 2.89 | 1.21 | 1.91 | |
| Duchenne smiles | 4.45 | 5.24 | 5.78 | 5.59 | |
| Leaning toward partner | 32.27 | 20.36 | 31.36 | 21.08 | |
| Gesticulation | 0.13 | 0.40 | 0.25 | 0.77 | |
| Note: Emotions are rated on a scale of 0 (none) to 8 (extreme). Cue displays are shown as mean seconds displayed per 60 s. |
11.For the following scores, find the (a) mean, (b) median, (c) sum of squared deviations, (d) variance, and (e) standard deviation:
| 2, 2, 0, 5, 1, 4, 1, 3, 0, 0, 1, 4, 4, 0, 1, 4, 3, 4, 2, 1, 0 | |||
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| 14. | On a standard measure of hearing ability, the mean is 300 and the standard deviation is 20. Give the Z scores for persons who score (a) 340, (b) 310, and (c) 260. Give the raw scores for persons whose Z scores on this test are (d) 2.4, (e) 1.5, (f) 0, and (g) –4.5. |
| 15. | A person scores 81 on a test of verbal ability and 6.4 on a test of quantitative ability. For the verbal ability test, the mean for people in general is 50 and the standard deviation is 20. For the quantitative ability test, the mean for people in general is 0 and the standard deviation is 5. Which is this person’s stronger ability: verbal or quantitative? Explain your answer to a person who has never had a course in statistics.
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