PY 216 Lab Assignment 1
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Health Science
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Dec 6, 2023
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Assignment 1
Upload your
SPSS output file
along with this
Word document
when you submit your assignment
on Canvas. Failing to comply with these requirements will result in a zero for this assignment.
*** Make sure to answer each question completely. ***
1.
Using yourself as a research participant, last summer you completed a 12-day study on the
effect of caloric intake on amount of daily sleep. You kept a record of the amount of calories
you consumed in a 24-hour period
and the length of time you naturally slept each night
(waking up without disturbance or assistance of alarm clock).
Below are the data you
recorded.
Caloric Intake
Hours Slept
1725
5.2
2300
9.5
2000
8.5
1775
7.0
2160
8.2
1800
8.5
2260
7.4
2005
8.4
2010
8.7
1590
6.8
1860
7.6
2090
9.2
a)
Enter your data into SPSS. Remember to give your variables names of your choice that
SPSS can recognize. Save this dataset file to a file name of your choice. (2 points)
b)
Create a
Frequency Distribution Table
for the variable
Caloric Intake
. Paste the table
you obtain from SPSS output window to the space below. (2 points)
c)
Based on this table, how many days did you consume
exactly
1800 calories
? What
percentage of days did you consume 2260
or fewer
calories
?
(2 points)
Comment: Refer to question 1b for the frequency table of calorie intake
Comment: I consumed exactly 1800 for only one day.
Comment: I consumed 2260 or fewer calories for 91.7% of the days.
d)
Create a
Histogram Chart
for the variable
Hours Slept
. Paste the
chart
you obtained
from SPSS output window in the space below. (2 points)
e)
Describe the shape of the distribution for
Hours Slept
using this table. (2 points)
Hint
: Use the language described in the notes and textbook when discussing distribution
of data.
Comment: Refer to question 1d for histogram of hours slept.
Comment: The graph for hours slept depicts a negative skew. There is one peak, which
means the data distribution is unimodal.
2.
High school students are exposed to a lot of academic text (e.g., textbooks, journal articles,
class presentations, etc.) during their curriculum and parents are concerned about the
emotional content of these texts. As a first step, the local School Board asked a research team
to assess the emotional content of assignment texts in a scientific manner. In order to answer
this question, the research team analyzed the emotional content of 199 randomly selected
sentences from the students’ assigned readings
. Next, the researchers categorized emotional
content using Plutchik’s Wheel of Emotions. You have been contacted as the statistician to
analyze the data and provide some answers.
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