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Computing Correlation Coefficients MCQ

A numerical index that reflects the relationship between two variables with the removal of the influence of a third variable is called

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Correct Answer: Partial correlation

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Coefficient of alienation is coefficient of nondetermination

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Correct Answer: True

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Coefficient of alienation is the amount of variance in one variable that is not accounted for by the variance in another variable.

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Correct Answer: True

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Coefficient of determination is the amount of variance in one variable that is accounted for by the variance in another variable.

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Correct Answer: True

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A table showing correlation coefficients among more than two variables is called

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Correct Answer: Correlation matrix

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A correlation that is best expressed visually as a straight line is called

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Correct Answer: Linear correlation

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In which plot of paired data points on an x-axis and a y-axis, used to visually represent a correlation?

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Correct Answer: Scattergram

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Scatter plot is of paired data points on an x-axis and a y-axis, used to visually represent a correlation.

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Correct Answer: True

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A ____ correlation where the values of variables move in opposite directions.

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Correct Answer: Negative

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A negative correlation where the values of variables move in opposite direction is called

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Correct Answer: Indirect correlation

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Direct correlation is ____ correlation

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Correct Answer: Positive

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A positive correlation where the values of both variables change in the same direction is called

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Correct Answer: Direct correlation

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Correlation coefficient that reflects the relationship between two variables, specifically how the value of one variable changes when the value of the other variable changes.

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Correct Answer: True

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In which index correlation coefficient that reflects the relationship between two variables?

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Correct Answer: Numerical

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We should do a scatterplot of the data when we compute a correlation because the scatterplot allows us to ______.

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Correct Answer: See the relationship between the two variables

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To know whether there is a relationship between two variables, you draw a line around the outer edges of a scatterplot. If there is a negative relationship, ______.

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Correct Answer: The scatterplot is elliptical and is slanted downward (left to right)

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Which of the following refers to a correlation between two variables?

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Correct Answer: Bivariate

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In a correlational analysis, N stands for the ______.

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Correct Answer: Total number of pairs of scores

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The best-fitting line through a scatterplot is known as the ______.

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Correct Answer: Regression line

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Correlation coefficients are used to describe what?

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Correct Answer: A group

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When plotting correlational data, the appropriate graph to use is the ______.

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Correct Answer: Scatterplot

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When looking at how one variable changes another variable, which of the following descriptive statistics would you want to use?

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Correct Answer: Correlation

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In general, a positive correlation means that as the values of one variable ______, there is a tendency for the values of the other variable to ______.

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Correct Answer: Increase; increase

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If we calculate a correlation coefficient and we find that there is a relationship between the two variables, we ______.

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Correct Answer: Cannot conclude that changes in one variable cause changes in the other variable

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A ______ variable comes between two variables of interest and explains the apparent relationship and a ______ variable affects both our variables of interest and explains the correlation between them.

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Correct Answer: Mediating; confounding

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In an experimental design ______, whereas in a correlational design ______.

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Correct Answer: Researchers assign each person an X score and then measure the score on the Y variable; researchers measure scores on variables that a participant has already experienced

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What does a correlation coefficient do?

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Correct Answer: It quantifies the pattern in a relationship.

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Using a correlational design, a researcher found a relationship between the healthiness of one’s heart and the amount of fish oil in one’s diet. The researcher should conclude that ______.

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Correct Answer: Although a relationship exists, one cannot infer that changes in one variable are causing changes in the other variable

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In general, a negative correlation means that as the values of one variable ______, there is a tendency for the values of the other variable to ______.

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Correct Answer: Increase; decrease

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