Leslie Is Studying Test Anxiety and Administers a Test to His

question 22

Multiple Choice

Leslie is studying test anxiety and administers a test to his research participants that asks them to rate their anxiety in various situations on a scale of 0 (no anxiety) to 10 (the worst anxiety imaginable) .He then uses the scores to divide his participants into high,medium,and low anxiety groups.Leslie's "high-medium-low" scale is best described as an example of a(n) ____ scale.

• A)nominal
• B)ordinal
• C)interval
• D)ratio

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Definitions:

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