PSYC 355 LAB PROJECT SURVEY Disclosure: I am asking you to complete this survey as part of the requirements for my statistics in a psychology course. Your answers will remain completely anonymous. No personal information about you will be linked to this survey. Please do not put your name or any other identifying information on the survey. The results of this survey will be used only for educational purposes and will not be published or released to the public. You must be 15 years old or older in order to complete this survey. Directions: For the following questions, mark the answers that most reflect your understanding of general Christian doctrine. This is not a personal belief survey. In other words, we are more interested in your understanding of what Christianity teaches, and not necessarily your own personal beliefs, which may or may not coincide with these statements. The survey consists of two pages of questions. For each question, mark your level of agreement with the given statement. 1. Christianity teaches belief in a personal God. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 2. Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ was God in a full sense. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 3. Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ really rose from the dead. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 4. Christianity teaches that people are born good. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 5. Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ's death was a sacrifice that paid for the sins of humankind. o Strongly agree Page 1 of 2 PSYC 355 o o o o Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 6. Christianity teaches that what is good and evil depends on the circumstances of the time. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 7. Christianity teaches that the Bible is God's word and all it says is true. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 8. Christianity teaches that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary if a person wants to go to heaven. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 9. Christianity teaches that God exists in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. o o o o o Strongly agree Agree Neither agree nor disagree Disagree Strongly disagree 10. Including Sundays and any other day of the week, how many times per year would you say that you attend church? (For your reference, there are 52 weeks in one year.) Please enter a number in the box: Thank you for taking the time to complete this survey! Page 2 of 2 Lab project phase 2: Raw Data Scoring 5.00 5.00 5.00 1.00 5.00 2.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 100.00 38.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 110.00 43.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.00 5.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 50.00 41.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 4.00 5.00 48.00 41.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 2.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 5.00 104.00 35.00 4.00 4.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 4.00 .00 5.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 80.00 44.00 2.00 4.00 5.00 4.00 5.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 52.00 39.00 5.00 2.00 4.00 3.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 36.00 37.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 4.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 42.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 3.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 75.00 43.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 30.00 45.00 38.00 PSYC 355 LAB PROJECT PHASE 3: SPSS OUTPUT INSTRUCTIONS After completing Phase 2 of the Lab Project, you now have 2 important variables in relation to your research question: a variable representing the total understanding of Christian doctrine, and a variable representing amount of church attendance. It is time for you to decide how to analyze the data! Think about what the research question is asking (i.e. how is it worded?), and think about your 2 important variables. Then think about the methods that you have learned over the past several weeks. Which statistical test is the best choice for this particular situation? There is a \"right\" answer to this question, so think carefully and review your text and notes if necessary. Once you have decided on which test is the best, you will run the analysis and create a graph just as you did in your SPSS homework assignments. You are required to paste the output file and the related SPSS generated graph into a Word document for submission. You do not need to interpret these results, as this will be done in Phase 4 (APA Results section). Refer to the \"Lab Project Overview and Instructions\" in addition to this document when completing this phase. Submit this assignment by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 6. Both of the variables (church attendance and score representing understanding of Christian doctrine) are scale variables the coefficient of correlation is an appropriate measure for the relationship between them and the scatter plot is appropriate to display the strength and direction of this relationship. Descriptive Statistics Mean Church Attendance Total Understanding of Christian doctrine Std. Deviation N 57.92 36.298 12 40.50 3.090 12 Correlations Total Understanding Church Attendance Pearson Correlation Church of Christian Attendance doctrine 1 -.068 PSYC 355 Sig. (2-tailed) N Total Understanding of Pearson Correlation Christian doctrine Sig. (2-tailed) N .832 12 12 -.068 1 .832 12 12 PSYC 355 LAB PROJECT EXCERPT The following text is the basis for the Lab Project and Discussion Board Forums. The excerpt is taken from: Quarles, C. (2011, August 18). Southern Baptists must learn to 'choose our battles wisely.' [Louisiana] Baptist Message. You are not required to read the entire article, but if you wish to read it, it has been included in the Module/Week 3 Additional Materials folder. \"For the last three years, Louisiana College has administered a newly-developed BASE (Belief Assessment of Spiritual Essentials) exam to incoming freshmen to determine how well they understand the essential doctrines of the Christian faith. These are not the lofty doctrines that only erudite ivory tower theologians discuss and debate in the back rooms of dusty libraries; these are essential gospel truths that a person must understand and believe to be considered truly Christian. Such doctrines include humanity's sinful and lost condition, Jesus' identity as God, the necessity of faith in Jesus for salvation, and our Lord's bodily resurrection. Here are some of our discoveries: 78 percent believe that all people are basically good and have no real need for a Savior 65 percent cannot identify a simple definition of new birth in a multiple-choice question. They think that being 'born again' means experiencing reincarnation or transmigration in which a person who has died returns to earth in another life form so that they can make up for the sins of the past. 54 percent think that faith in Jesus is unnecessary for salvation. In their view, as long as a person believes in a god and has fallen in love with him, her, or it, he is right with that god. 42 percent believe that people go to heaven because of their personal morality rather than because of Jesus' sacrificial death. 32 percent do not know that Christianity affirms the Deity of Jesus Christ, even though the NT repeatedly insists that faith in Jesus as God is necessary for salvation. 25 percent do not know that Christianity claims that Jesus literally rose from the dead. Overall, our freshmen scored a 67 percent on the BASE exam, a failing grade, despite the fact that 90 percent of the college's incoming freshmen claim to be Christians and nearly 60 percent of them grew up in our own Louisiana Baptist churches!\