Describe the major steps in factor analysis
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Collect data. (2) Determine correlation of every item with every other item. (3) Factor extraction: reduce correlation matrix to smaller number of underlying dimensions (factors). (4) Factor loadings: correlations between each individual item and each factor. (5) Label the factors.
Psychology
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A psychologist administers a series of projective tests to a client. Which major theoretical orientation is most consistent with this psychologist's preference in assessment methods?
a. behavioral b. biological c. humanistic d. psychodynamic
Psychology
Descriptive statistics are more precise when the sample is larger. This is predicted by the
a. standard error. b. central tendency measures. c. normal distribution. d. central limit theorem.
Psychology