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I was sitting in my bunk looking at my girlfriends Polaroid that she had sent me a few months ago. As I was looking Chuck asked me, “how is she doing?” Frankly I didn’t know I hadn’t talked to her in years this is something that she sent to my parents after she left me because she was getting lonely while I was away at war. “Yeah, she’s...good,” I replied uncertainly. “Well that is good,” he replied. While I was looking at her picture I hear gun fire. Then *BOOM* a torpedo hits the port side of…

1. QUESTION: Class, what does the correlation coefficients of -1, +1, and 0 tells you about the relationship between the two variables? It depends on the method one uses, but the Pearson correlation coefficient is the most widely used. Values in the form of numbers show the direction and how strong the relationship is between two different variables. These can range from -1.00 up to +1.00. If it is positive it is a direct relationship. For example, if one increases the other will also increase…

As mentioned previously, the focus of this study was to determine if a relationship exists between communication apprehension, academic performance, and affective learning. Results were recorded using Qualtrics, a web-based research software that provides survey platforms. These results were input into SPSS so that statistical analysis could be performed. Given the nature of the variables of interest (continuous), two correlations tests were performed. Hypothesis One: Correlations Test A sample…

Introduction Employee engagement is a workplace tactic that brings about the ideal conditions for all associates of an organization to: excel each day, commit to their companies’ goals, and be driven to contribute to the organization’s success. Employee engagement can be measured and can vary from poor to great. Nurturing employee engagement in the workplace can also deepen communication between members of an organization and increase the overall productivity. The purpose of this study is to…

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), created by Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, and Erbaugh (1961) is one of the most widely used self-report instruments for psychiatric populations that assesses depression through the depth or severity of depressive symptoms. The BDI contains 21 items that are rated on a 4-point scale (0-3) which reflect increasing symptom severity and cover areas of depressive symptomology including affective, cognitive, motivational, and physiological symptoms (Bumberry et al.,…

Friendships and Self-Esteem Correlate The feeling of connectedness has been shown in past research to positively correlate with a person’s self-esteem. Those who felt they belonged and had some sort of connection with others overall had better self-esteem, as well as a better mental state, such as lower symptoms of depression (Dang, 2014). The purpose of this study was to see if there is a positive correlation between self-esteem and social inclusion by measuring self-esteem and friendships.…

Computer exercise one and two Nominal level data was identified based on the parameters that it is mutually exclusive and exhaustive. It cannot be ranked but it maybe assigned a number such as one or two for classification purposes Burns, Grove, Gray (2013), Using the bladder study provided in SPSS, nominal level data were identified as, education level, ethnicity, zip code and marital status. Two modes were identified from the nominal level data. For ethnicity the mode was African American (n…

Procedure The subjects were asked to individually fill out the digital surveys online during their PSYC121 labs. The classroom is set up with computers lining the walls on three sides of the room. The Classrooms hold a maximum of 16 people per lab. There were dividers between each of the computers so that subjects could not see each other’s screens and because subjects where facing the walls minimised distraction by other subjects. The study was approved by the Victoria University ethics…

Analysis Section: In order to determine if prevention programs particularly the BUILD program, are successful in helping reduce youths at risk I conducted a research study. This study consisted of a one group post-test only design and quantitative data, the sample size consisted of 26 youth participant’s, 13 were male and 13 were female, all were African American, all were participants of the BUILD program, all attended Leland elementary, and there ages varied from 5-15 years old. To…

How do we learn what we know? A variety of approaches are used by researches to gain knowledge about habits and psychological processes. One of the five approaches used by psychologists is correlation. Correlations provide data that enables psychologists to answer questions that have not been answered before. Correlation method is defined as “A research method used to examine relationships between variables, which are expressed in the form of a statistical measure called a correlation…