PSY 411 Chapter 4 Notes

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percentile rank

A score that indicates the percentage of people who scored at or below a given raw score

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standard normal distribution

A normal distribution with a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1

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z score (standard score)

the number of standard deviations an individual score is from the mean

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Standardization

The process of putting different variables on the same scale to compare them. to standardize variables, you calculate the mean and standard deviation.

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Understand the unique properties of the normal curve and we can use the normal distribution as a tool

Symmetrical, bell-shaped frequency polygon,  normal distribution  mean = median = mode

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Describe what a percentile rank is

A score that indicates the percentage of people who scored at or below a given raw score

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