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Research in Social Psychology Fall 2020 SPSS Lab Assignment 2

The purpose our SPSS Lab Assignments is to give you experience analyzing mock data in SPSS so that you’ll be able to take the lead on analyzing our actual class dataset in a few weeks. Please open the Lab Assignments Dataset (available on the online campus in the toolkit under “Datasets”). Please answer the questions below and submit your lab by Wednesday October 28th at 11:59pm. This assignment should be your own individual work, but you are welcome to troubleshoot with your peers.

1. Find the variable named Task Performance and use SPSS to get descriptive statistical information on it. Respond to either A or B (depending on which is more appropriate) (5 points): A. If it is appropriate, provide the mean: 75.98 and standard deviation 14.91. B. If A is not appropriate, describe what percentage of participants score each of the possible values: N/A.

2. Find the variable named SexualOrientation and use SPSS to get descriptive statistical information on it. Respond to either A or B (depending on which is more appropriate) (5 points): A. If it is appropriate, provide the mean: N/A and standard deviation N/A. B. If A is not appropriate, describe what percentage of participants score each of the possible values: ● 50 percent of participants identified as male. ● 46 percent of participants identified as female. ● 4 percent of participants identified as gender non binary / gender fluid / gender queer.

3. Find the variable named Age, and create a new variable that is AgeInYears. Use SPSS to get descriptive statistical information on this new AgeInYears variable. Respond to all of the following (6 points): A. What is mean of AgeInYears? 18.51 B. What is the median of AgeInYears? 18.5 C. What is the variance of AgeInYears? .508

4. This dataset has five belonging items that are intended to form a composite. Reverse-code when necessary and conduct a reliability analysis (6 points): A. What is the Chronbach’s alpha? .909 B. Does the value in 4A suggest you can form a composite? Why or why not? The value of .909 suggests that there is good internal consistency, so we would be able to form a composite with these five questions because everything can be formed together to make a measurement based on multiple data items. Since I reverse coded two of them we can now use all the data together for easier analysis.

5. Regardless of your answer in 4B, form a belonging composite: the average of all five items, reverse-coding when necessary. Record the values for this new variable for participants 1-3 (3 points): A. ParticipantNumber 1: Average Belonging = 6.6 B. ParticipantNumber 2: Average Belonging = 5.2 C. ParticipantNumber 3: Average Belonging = 6.4...