A Sports Psychologist Is Seeking a Screening Task for Talent

question 113

Multiple Choice

A sports psychologist is seeking a screening task for talent identification that does not favour one gender over the other.He recruits a sample of 119 athletes (70 male and 49 female) and records the time taken to complete the task.The distribution has a very long tail so he decides to conduct a nonparametric test in SPSS.The output is shown below: Which of the following statements is false?

• A)The Mann-Whitney test has no assumptions.
• B)The Mann-Whitney test has less restrictive assumptions than the t-test.
• C)A t-test could have been calculated using the same data
• D)The decision to use a Mann-Whitney test can be justified in terms of the assumption of normality that applies to the t-test.
• E)The sum of the mean ranks is approximately 119.

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning where a stimulus that was previously neutral becomes a conditioned stimulus by being paired with another conditioned stimulus.

Shaping

A method of teaching new behaviors by rewarding successive approximations toward a desired behavior.

FR Schedule

Fixed Ratio Schedule, a type of reinforcement schedule used in behavioral psychology where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.

Reinforcement Given

The delivery of a stimulus following a behavior that increases the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.