PSYC 354
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Problem Set 1: A social psychologist is interested in attitudes toward technology among people
over 65 years of age. She develops a scale where a lower score indicates a less positive attitude
and administers it to 15 people over 65. The results appear in the table below. Remember to put
your initials within any and all variable names.
1. Using the data in the table above, set up a data file in SPSS and create a frequency table
to show the frequency of each score on the scale. Paste the frequency table here: (8 pts)
2. How many people have a score of 14? (5 pts)
3. What percent of people have a score of 12? (5 pts)
4. Which score has the highest frequency in the table? (5 pts)
5. Using the same data, create a histogram in SPSS to show the distribution of the scores.
Paste the histogram here: (7 pts)
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Attitudes Toward
Technology Scale Scores
11
20
7
7
12
12
5
9
14
7
5
7
9
14
12
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Problem Set 2: An undergraduate Psychology student wants to examine the number of
applications to doctoral programs in different subfields of Psychology. He collects data from a
sample of schools in the US. He compiles the chart below. (The data here are based on real data
taken from the web site of the American Psychological Association
(https://www.apa.org/education/grad/survey-data/2016-report.pdf).
Enter the data in a new SPSS file. When creating the Program variable, be sure that the type is
set to in the Variable View so that the names will show up on the graph. “String” Remember to
put your initials within any and all variable names.
1. Using the data in the table above, set up a data file in SPSS and create a bar chart that
shows the number of applications for each subfield. (8 pts)
2. Which three subfileds have the highest number of applications according to the graph? (5
pts)
3. Which level of measurement (nominal/ordinal/interval/ratio) is the variable “Subfield?
Support your answer with information from the course materials (textbook or
presentations). (5 pts)
4. Which level of measurement is the variable “Number of Applications”? Support your
answer with information from the course materials (textbook or presentations). (5 pts)
Integration: Answer the following question based on Problems 1 and 2 above and what you
have learned from readings and presentations this week.
1. Explain why it is appropriate to create a histogram for the Attitudes Toward Technology
data, but a bar chart for the number of applications per subfield. (7 pts)
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Subfield Number of Applications
Clinical
Cognitive
Counseling
Developmental
Experimental
I/O
Neuropsychology
School
Social
Other
297
123
91
101
80
67
83
59
194
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