PSYC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Test Statistic, Repeated Measures Design, Sport Psychology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 210
• Professor: Snjezana Huerta

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(cid:1) 210 hypothesis test examples dependent t test (repeated measures) A canadian sports psychologist has developed a three-week intervention to increase the training motivation of high school cross-country athletes. Motivation is operationalized in terms of the number of hours the athletes train each week. Test (mmt; population mean = 25, unknown) before the intervention (mmt1) and after the intervention (mmt2). Assumptions to be tested: normality of distribution of __________ scores. Step 3: specify the test statistic and the null distribution. ~ t(n-1) where n = the number of sibling dyads. Step 4: specify decision rule(s). (cid:2) = _____; ____-tailed test; df = ________; critical value(s): ________________________ *collect data (using random sampling) & conduct thorough descriptive analyses, including Step 5: calculate the observed value of the test statistic. s. Calculate the estimated standard error for the sampling distribution: