Test Bank For Methods Doing Social Research 4th Edition by Winston Jackson

MC A-1

To access the syntax editor window do the following:

1. point-and-click on analyze/file/syntax
2. point-and-click on edit/new/syntax
3. point-and-click on file/new/syntax
4. point-and-click on tools/syntax

Answer: C

Difficulty: Moderate

To produce a Spearman correlation do the following:

1. point-and-click on analyze/correlations/Spearman
2. point-and-click on edit/correlate/Spearman
3. point-and-click on file/new/Spearman
4. point-and-click on tools/Spearman Correlation

Answer: A

Difficulty: Moderate

The test of significance most associated with the CROSSTABS procedure is:

1. The F test
2. The t test
3. The Chi-Square test
4. The R² test

Answer: C

Difficulty: Moderate

To identify how many cases fall into each category of a nominal variable the appropriate SPSS procedure to use is:

1. the MEANS procedure
2. the RELIABILITY procedure
3. the DESCRIPTIVES procedure
4. the FREQUENCIES procedure

Answer: D

Difficulty: Easy

If you have a nominal dependent variable and an ordinal independent variable, the appropriate SPSS procedure to use to examine their relationship is:

1. REGRESSION
2. CORRELATION
3. MEANS
4. CROSSTABS

Answer: D