1) A researcher measures the extent to which years of marriage predict perceptions of forgiveness. Which factor is the criterion variable in this example?

a) years of marriage

b) perceptions of forgiveness

c) both years of marriage and perceptions of forgiveness

d) none of these

2) A researcher measures the extent to which time spent watching educational preschool television programming predicts success in school. Which factor is the criterion variable in this example?

a) educational preschool television

b) type of television programming

c) success in school

d) time spent in school

3) A researcher computes an analysis of regression in which MSresidual = 0.82. What is the value of se in this example?

a) 0.67

b) 0.82

c) 0.91

d) there is not enough information to answer this question

4) In addition to evaluating the significance of a multiple regression equation, we also should consider ______.

a) the significance of the residual variability

b) the complexity of the correlation coefficient

c) the relative contribution of each factor

d) the significance of each individual data point

5) To standardize the beta coefficients, we first ______.

a) analyze the significance of each data point

b) analyze the residual variation

c) convert the original data to standardized z scores

d) compute the standard error of estimate

6) For a multiple regression, we typically report which value that is not often reported for a one factor linear regression analysis?

a) effect size

b) coefficient

c) test statistic

d) p value

7) To summarize any type of regression analysis using American Psychological Association format, we report each of the following except the ______.

a) test statistic

b) degrees of freedom

c) p value

d) critical values