You Are Given a Series of Words on a Computer

question 11

Multiple Choice

You are given a series of words on a computer screen and asked to say the color that the word is printed in as quickly as possible. Your response time is especially long for the words PSYCHOLOGY, MIDTERM, and GRADUATION. The experimenter concludes that you are

• A) responding to these words more slowly because they are very familiar as a result of studying.
• B) having trouble focusing your eyes on these words.
• C) anxious about your psychology midterm and fear that you will fail it and not graduate.
• D) suffering from depression.

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Definitions:

Graphical Techniques

The use of plots, charts, and graphs to visualize, interpret, and analyze data.

Distribution

In statistics, it refers to the way in which values of a variable or a set of variables are spread or dispersed across a range of values.

Magnitude

A quantitative measure of size or extent, often used in context to describe the importance or severity of a variable or event.

Correlation Coefficient

A numerical measure that indicates the extent of a linear relationship between two variables, ranging from -1 to 1.