Procrastination
Hockey
Intro Psych
Perfectionism
100

This is the criterion variable in the Procrastination study.

What is pervasiveness of procrastination?

100

The researchers calculated the correlation between perceived competence scores in hockey at time 1 and at time 2 and found r = .46, p < .01. These numbers tell you about this characteristic of the measure.

The researchers calculated the correlation between perceived competence scores in hockey at time 1 and at time 2 and found r = .46, p < .01. These numbers tell you about this characteristic of the measure.

100

Solomon et al. (2019) found a correlation of .46 (p < .001) between students’ scores on the Intro Psych Knowledge Inventory and exam scores. This finding can be interpreted to indicate this.

What is good convergent validity?

100

The tendency to perceive projects as incomplete is this type of definition of doubts about actions.

What is conceptual definition?

200

Excerpt #2 comes from this section of an APA style paper.

What is the results section?

200

This is the type of study the researchers conducted.

What is a cross-lag panel design?

200

Solomon et al. (2019) found a correlation of .14 (p = .096) between students’ scores on the Intro Psych Knowledge Inventory and ACT English and Reading scores. This finding can be interpreted to indicate this.

What is good discriminant validity?

200

This dimension of perfectionism shows no relationship with wellbeing.

What is personal standards?

300

This is the predictor variable with the strongest correlation with the prevalence of procrastination.

What is task aversiveness?

300

This is the criterion variable in the hockey study.

What is motivation (or self-determined motivation)?

300

Solomon et al. (2019) found that college intro psych students who had previously taking high school psychology performed better on the Intro Psych Knowledge Inventory than students without high school psych. This finding can be interpreted to indicate this.

What is criterion validity?

300

This dimension of perfectionism shows the strongest relationship with wellbeing.

What is doubts about actions?

400

Looking at Excerpt #2, this is the number of predictor variables that are related to the prevalence of procrastination.

What is seven?

400

Looking at excerpt #4, this is the problem that is avoided by the use of items that need to be reverse scored.

What is acquiescent responding?

400

Solomon et al. (2019) found that the majority (97.4%) of a sample of faculty who taught intro psych reported that it was representative of typical course content. This finding can be interpreted to indicate this.

What is content validity?

400

This is the number of dimensions of perfection that show a significant relationship with GPA.

What is four?

500

Excerpt #3 shows that task aversiveness might be a cause of procrastination and has ruled out the possibility that risk taking explains the relationship between task aversiveness and procrastination. This is the information in the table that allows you to reach this conclusion.

What is p = .001 for task aversiveness?

500

This is the requirement for making a causal claim that is NOT addressed in the hockey study.

What is the third-variable problem?

500

Data were collected from introductory psychology instructors (N = 38) recruited via the authors’ professional networks, contacting attendees of a psychology teaching conference, and asking participants to forward the recruitment materials to their professional networks. The authors used this type of sampling.

What is snowball sampling?

500

This statement describes the correlation between concern over mistakes and doubts about actions (Hint: Start the statement, “the more…”).

What is “the more concerned people are over making mistakes, the more doubts they have about actions”?

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