Lab #1 Statistics in Psychology Introduction to SPSS, Frequency and Visualizatio

Lab #1 Statistics in Psychology
Introduction to SPSS, Frequency and Visualization, Measure of Central Tendency
Part I. Summarizing Data
Please go to Course Content and download the data set in Lab 1 folder named “Lab 1 – Dataset”. After downloading the data set, please import the data into SPSS. Using SPSS to complete the following:
Total number of participants: n = _____
Frequencies:
Hair Color: Brown ___ Black ___ Blonde ___ Red ___ Other ___
Birth Order: First ___ Middle ___ Last ___ Only ___
Ice Cream: Chocolate ___ Vanilla ___ Strawberry ___
Central Tendencies (If the answer has decimals, round it up to 2 decimal places):
Variable
Mean
Mode
Median
Siblings
Classes taken
States visited
States lived in
Miles to campus
Minutes to campus
Height
Shoe size
Shoes owned
Course excitement
Part II: Measures of Central Tendency
The number of hours you spent studying each day last week was as follows:
Monday – 2 Tuesday – 1 Wednesday – 3 Thursday – 2 Friday – 1
What is the mean number of hours that you spent studying? _______
What is the mode? _______
What is the median? _______
Which measure of central tendency is most descriptive for this question? ____________
Using SPSS, calculate the mean, median, and mode for the following scores:
13, 14, 14, 15, 17, 17, 17, 18, 19, 21, 21, 23, 24, 27
Mean: _______ Median: _______ Mode: _______
Measures of Variability
Part III: Summarizing Data
Use the same dataset as above. Use SPSS to complete the following:
Variability (If the answer has decimals, round it up to 2 decimal places):
Variable
Std. Deviation
Maximum
Minimum
Siblings
Classes taken
States visited
States lived in
Miles to campus
Minutes to campus
Height
Shoe size
Shoes owned
Course excitement
Part IV: Variability Problems
Range: 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8 _____
Calculate the variance and the standard deviation for the following data set (Use SPSS to check your results):
Original Deviation from Mean Squared
_2_ ___ ___
_4_ ___ ___
_5_ ___ ___
_5_ ___ ___
_6_ ___ ___
_8_ ___ ___
Mean = Sum = _______
Variance: _____________
Standard deviation: _______________
Use SPSS to find the range and standard deviation of the list of scores that were made by a football team during a season.
Scores: 0, 7, 7, 14, 17, 17, 21, 21
Range: _______ Standard Deviation: _______
HERE IS THE ACTUAL WORD DOC FOR THE ASSIGNMENT. I AM ATTACHING A FILE BELOW!