Tutorial Exercise for Lecture 2

1. Which of the following are good, testable hypotheses ? If not, why not?

a) Upper deck and lower deck bus riders are different.

b) Religion is essential to human life.
c) Men are better drivers than women.

2. How to do start a literature review/Getting familiar with PsycInfo:

a) Use PsycInfo to find the following article:

Lam, K.C.H., Buehler, R., McFarland, C. Ross, M., & Cheung, I. (2005). Cultural
differences in affective forecasting: The role of focalism. Personality and Social
Psychology Bulletin, 31, 1296-1309.

3. Getting familiar with SPSS (with correlational / quasi-experimental data)

a) Enter the following data into SPSS

b) Compute the correlation coefficient between Head Size and Recall

c) State the relationship between Head Size and Recall
d) Change the numbers in the data so that the correlation coefficient becomes close
to zero
e) Suppose participants 1-5 were men, and participants 6-10 were women. Compute
the correlation coefficient between Gender and Recall.
f) compute Means for Recall and compare by gender groups.