BILQUIS POSTGRADUATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN

PAF Nur Khan, Rawalpindi

Final Term Exams, Spring 2021
Subject: Statistics in Psychology (PY312) Class: BSPY Total Marks: 100
Semester: 5th Time: 3 hours Part I: 20 minutes
Instructor: Iram Hasan Part II: 2 hours, 40 mins
Name: Roll No.

PART – I (MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS) (20 Marks)

Instructions: Chose the CORRECT option in following questions. Only one option is correct.
1. Students of BPGCW are evaluated and classified as non-readers (0), regular 1
point readers (1), and intermediate level readers (2), or advanced readers (3). The
classification is done in order to place them in reading groups. Choose the
appropriate scale of measurement
A. Nominal B. Ordinal C. Interval D. Ratio
2. During a clinical interview, survivors of a COVID-19 are asked to state “no” or
“yes” to whether they have experienced specific symptoms of Post-Covid-19
recovery in the past week. The number “0” is assigned to “no” and the number “1” is
assigned to “yes”. Choose the appropriate scale of measurement.
A. Nominal B. Ordinal C. Interval D. Ratio
3. Which one of the following variables is NOT categorical?
A. true or false. B. Gender: male or female.
C. Age of a person. D. Marital status (single/married/divorced)

4. If there were a perfect positive correlation between two interval/ratio variables, the
Pearson's r test would give a correlation coefficient of
A. +1 B. +.345 C. -1 D. -.345
5. A collection of statistical methods that generally requires very few, if any
assumptions about the population distribution is known as
A. Parametric Methods B. Non-parametric C. Qualitative Methods D. None of these

6. Which of the following tests would be an example of a nonparametric

method? A. t- test B. z-test C. sign- test D. all of these

7. Suppose that a one-tail t test is being applied to find out if the population
mean is less than 100. The level of significance is .05 and 25 observations
were sampled. The rejection region is:
A. t > 1.708 B. t < -1. 711 C. t > 1.318 D. t < -1.316

8. Suppose a business person wishes to open a store in a local shopping

centre only if there is strong evidence that the average number of people in
the centre is greater than 5000 per day. The null hypothesis will be
A. H0: µ ≤ 5000 B. H0: µ > 5000 C. H0: µ ≥ 5000 D. H0: µ < 5000
9. Which of the following is not a correct way to state a null hypothesis?
A. H0: µd = 10 B. H0:µ1−µ2=0 C. H0:µ=.5 D. H0: X̅= .5

10. If data is collected from 1999-2020 on average temperature of

Islamabad in month of June, and you are particularly interested to study the
change over time, which graphical method will be the best describe it?
A. Histogram B. Pie graph C. Line graph D. Scatter plot.

11. Positive regression coefficient indicates that the movement of the

variables are in: (a) same direction (b) opposite direction
(c) upward direction (d) downward direction

12. When the two regression lines are parallel to each other, then their
slopes are: (a) Zero (b) Different (c) Same (d) Positive

13. In the regression equation Y = a + bX, b is called:

(a) Slope (b) Regression coefficient (c) Intercept (d) Dependent
variable

14. A _____________ is accepting H0 when it is false.

A. Type II error B. Type I error C. null hypothesis D. α

15. A list of 5 pulse rates is: 71, 65, 81, 75, and 91. What is the median?
A. 75 B. 81 C. 65 D. 78
16. A process by which we estimate the value of dependent variable on the basis of one or
more independent variables is called:
(a) Correlation (b) Regression (c) Residual (d) Slope

17. If X is measured in hours and Y is measured in minutes, then correlation coefficient

has the unit:
(a) Hours (b) Minutes (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) No unit

18. Null and alternative hypotheses are statements about:

(a). population parameters. (b). sample parameters.
(c ). sample statistics. (d). the range is larger than the interquartile range.

19. The value we would predict for the dependent variable when the independent variables
are all equal to zero is called:
(a) Slope (b) Sum of residual (c) Intercept (d) Difficult to tell

20. The statement “If there is sufficient evidence to reject a null hypothesis at 1 point the
10%significance level, then there is sufficient evidence to reject it at the 5% significance
level” is:
(a). Always True (b). Never True (c). Sometimes True (d). Not Enough
Information: this would depend on the type of statistical test us
 PART – II (SHORT ANSWERS) (40+40 Marks)
Instructions: Solve ALL questions from question 1 to question 6
Question1. A regression between foot length (response variable in cm) and 5
points height (explanatory variable in inches) for 33 students resulted in the
following regression equation: yˆ = 10.9 + 0.23 x
(a) One student in the sample was 73 inches tall. What is the predicted foot
length for this student?
(b) One student in the sample was 73 inches tall with a foot length of 29 cm.
What is the residual for this student?
(c) Where does the linear regression line touch on y-axis? (6)

QUESTION 2. A bank manager claims that the median number of customer 5

points per day is no more than 750. A teller doubts the accuracy of this claim.
The number of bank customers per day for 16 randomly selected days are
listed below. At 0.05 significance level, can the teller reject the bank manager’s
claim? 775 765 801 742 754 753 739 751 745 750 777 769 756 760 782 789
Question 3. The following line graph shows the distribution of rainfall over the
period of a year. (15)

a) Which month has maximum rainfall and how do you know that?
b) What is Median of the distribution of rainfall of 12 months?
c) In which months was there the same amount of r rainfall?.
d) How much does the rainfall increase by between April and June?
e) How much rainfall was there in total between July and August?
Question 4. Write down how many days in the week, temp is 60 or more in the line
graph given (4)
 Question 5. Random samples of size 225 are drawn from a population with
mean 100 and standard deviation 20 . Find the mean and standard
deviation of the sample mean.
Instructions: Solve any TWO of the following questions! Each question
carries equal marks.
Question 6. A manufacturing process produces components which have 20 points
weight normally distributed about 60g with a standard deviation of 1.2g. A new
process has been developed to cut costs. Average the weight of 15 random samples
of components produced by the new process is 61g with standard deviation of 1.22.
The management wishes to know if the new process has improved, test the
hypothesis at 5%level of significance?
(a) Formulate the hypothesis.
(b) Calculate Test-statistics.
(c) Find critical Region.
(d) Conclusion
(e) Interpret conclusion in words.
Question 7.Researchers want to test a new anti-hunger weight loss pill. They
have 10 people rate their hunger both before and after taking the pill. Does
the pill do anything? Use alpha = 0.05
S.# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Before 9 10 7 5 7 5 9 6 8 7
After 7 6 5 4 4 6 7 5 5 7

For the given data (a) Define Null and Alternative Hypotheses. (b) State alpha
(c) State Test Statistics (d) critical region with decision (d) state conclusion in
the context of scenario.

Question 8. The following table shows the average weights for given heights in
a population of men.
Heights 185 160 165 170 175 180
(x cm)
Weights 65.1 67.9 70.1 72.8 75.4 77.2
( y kg)
(a) The relationship between the variables is modelled by the regression
equation y=ax+b. Write down the value of regression coefficients a and of b.
(b) Use this relationship to estimate the weight of a man whose height is 177
cm.
(c) Find the correlation coefficient.
(d) Draw scatter plot and estimated regression line