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Practice Questions for Introduction to Statistics

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1. What is the difference between an independent and a dependent variable? Describe both terms.
 
2. Study both definitions of the term performance-motivation, as given below.
  1. Someone gets assigned the task to build a tower of matches. Performance-motivation refers to the number of attempts someone tries, before he or she quits.
  2. Performance-motivation is the ability to set yourself to do a certain performance.
Are these definitions conceptual or operational?
 
3. What does ‘correlational research’ mean?
 
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