Psych 222Lab1 - Professor/Grad Student: Alexander Quang PDF

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Professor/Grad Student: Alexander Quang...

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LAB 1 ASSIGNMENT: CREATING VARIABLES AND ENTERING DATA Part one: Entering data, creating variables, and coding -

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Follow along with your instructor to: ● Open a new, blank data file, to record pet survey responses. ● Open ‘Variable View’ and create new variables according to the pet surveys you have been given. Name the variables as instructed, set proper values as instructed (code responses), and identify whether the variable is nominal, ordinal, or scale (for either interval or ratio). ● Open ‘Data View’ Enter data from the first participant By yourself: ● Continue entering data for all 30 participants (completed by college students).

Part two: Questions about created data set -

Based on the data set you just created: Problem #1: What information does ‘Variable View’ contain? Provide some detail. Problem #2: What information does ‘Data View ‘contain? Provide some detail. Problem #3: How many variables does your data set have? Problem #4: How many participants completed the survey? Problem #5: For each variable in your data set, report whether it is: nominal, ordinal, or scale.

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Next, follow along with your instructor to determine if people generally prefer cats or dogs (you will instruct SPSS to create a frequency distribution table). Problem #6: Do people generally prefer cats or dogs?  People generally prefer dogs. Problem #7: The results of SPSS analysis is shown where? A) The data file B) In Moodle C) The output file

Part three: Upload answers via Moodle -

Follow along with the instructor to upload your first assignment to Moodle—this will be the protocol for turning in assignments throughout the semester....