Author Question: The traditional view about the normal curve in psychology is that normal curves are A) rare in ... (Read 131 times)

arivle123 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

The traditional view about the normal curve in psychology is that normal curves are

A) rare in nature, but often occur in psychological studies.
B) common in nature, but psychological measures rarely yield normally distributed scores.
C) almost guaranteed because of the way psychological measures are developed.
D) rare both in nature and in the distributions of scores in psychological research.

Question 2

In a chi-square test of independence, the term expected frequency generally refers to

A) the distribution of people over categories on the measured variables under the assumption of equal numbers of people in all cells.
B) the distribution of people over categories on one variable expected if the distribution of people over categories on the other variable is completely unrelated to it.
C) the examination of the spread of the grouping variable to see if it is truly an independent variable.
D) the population's distribution of the scores on the measured variable as estimated by the sample data.