Question

(i) When a person's score on one variable is used to make predictions about a person's score on another variable, the procedure is called a. a correlation. b. hypothesis testing. c. bivariate prediction. d. multicollinearity.   

(ii) If a counseling psychologist wants to predict college grades from high school grades, college grades are the a. predictor variable. b. criterion variable. c. independent variable. d. causal variable.   

(iii) If a child psychologist reports that age in months predicts appetite level for a group of infants using a linear prediction rule in which a = 1 and b = 2, the appetite level for a four-month-old infant is a. 4 b. 8 c. 9 d. 12   

(iv) The regression constant is also referred to as a. error. b. a slope. c. the X intercept. d. the Y intercept.

Answer 1