Question 1

To be considered part of a factor,a variable should have a loading greater than __________.

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Question 2

In a multilevel model,Level-1 variables reflect __________.

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Question 3

A factor loading is the correlation of a factor with a(n)__________.

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Question 4

An experimenter hypothesizes that if X is a cause,Y is an effect,and the relation is mediated by M.If this logic is correct,then one aspect of the analysis implies that __________ should predict Y,even after controlling for __________.(Give letters.)

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Question 5

If a psychologist is concerned that when people take a test of knowledge-like a vocabulary test-for the second time that their performance is likely to be different because of having taken the test once,the psychologist is assessing __________.

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Question 6

Many of the major procedures presented in this text are mathematically equivalent because they share the same central logic,a mathematical formula statisticians call the __________.

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Question 7

Of the four major statistical procedures discussed in this book,the most general technique is __________.

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Question 8

The most widely used measure of reliability,which is equivalent to the average of the split-half correlations from all possible splits into halves of the items on a test,is __________.

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Question 9

In a multilevel model,Level-2 variables reflect __________.

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Question 10

An unmeasured theoretical variable assumed to be the underlying cause of several variables that are actually measured and used in the analysis is a(n)__________ variable.

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Question 11

When raters use categories (e.g.,present v.absent)to assess participants' data,the appropriate reliability statistic is __________.

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Question 12

Path analysis,mediational analysis,and structural equation modeling can be grouped together,and are all variations of __________.

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Question 13

An advanced type of regression analysis that handles research situations in which people are grouped in some way that could affect the pattern of scores is __________.

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Question 14

In a path analysis,the degree of relation of the variables at the two ends of the arrow in the context of the entire causal model is shown by the __________.

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Question 15

For the __________,.05 is considered a very good fit.(Spell out,do not use the abbreviated term.)

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Question 16

An exploratory statistical procedure used to identify groupings of variables correlating maximally with each other and minimally with variables in the other groupings is __________.

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Question 17

The general linear model is based on a __________ criterion.

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Question 18

In structural equation modeling,a __________ chi-square test indicates that the model is a poor fit.

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Question 19

A procedure for finding the correlation between two variables,over and above the influence of one or more other variables,is __________.

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Question 20

If a psychologist is concerned about getting different results depending on the way a test is divided in half,the psychologist is assessing __________.

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Quiz 15: The General Linear Model and Making Sense of Advanced Statistical Procedures in Research Articles