PSYCH/625 Version 1 Time to Practice � Week Five University of Phoenix Material

Week five material for a psychology course.

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Time to PracticeWeek FivePSYCH/625 Version 11Copyright ©2013by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved.PSYCH/625 Version 1 Time to PracticeWeek FiveUniversity of Phoenix MaterialTime to PracticeWeekFiveCompleteParts A, B, and C below.Part ASome questions in Part A require that you access data fromStatistics for People Who (ThinkThey) HateStatistics.This data is available on the student website under the Student Text Resources link.1.Usethe followingdata to answer Questions 1a and 1b.Totalno. ofproblemscorrect (out of a possible20)Attitudetowardtesttaking(out of a possible 100)1794137312591580169314851666167918771991a.Compute the Pearsonproduct-moment correlation coefficient by hand and show all your work.Considering, x =total number of correct problems and y=Attitude,we have,𝑛=10,𝑥̅=15.6,𝑦=79.7,𝑥𝑦=12568,𝑥2=2476𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑦2=64727Thus,Correlation coefficient =𝑥𝑦𝑛𝑥̅𝑦(𝑥2𝑛𝑥̅2)(𝑦2𝑛𝑦2)=0.5961b.Construct a scatterplot for these 10 values by hand. Based on the scatterplot, would you predictthe correlation to bedirect or indirect? Why?The scatter plot is given below.

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