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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Intrusive, irrational, and unwanted thoughts are called:

a. Irrational beliefs. b. Obsessions. c. Compulsions. d. Generalized anxiety.

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Patients with ___________ hemisphere damage in the brain may have difficulties with reading, identifying objects, making symbolic gestures or pantomimes, and describing events in the correct order

a. left b. right c. frontal d. rear

Psychology

Dr. Simmons teaches philosophy and discusses several topics in the course, including religion

Paulo, a student in the class, believes that when he dies, he will be resurrected. Paulo's claim falls under the area of A) metaphysics. Correct. Metaphysical claims make assertions that are not testable and relate to subjects like the existence of God, the soul, and the afterlife. B) science. C) pseudoscience. Incorrect. Assertions or beliefs about topics like God or the afterlife are central to the topic of metaphysics, not pseudoscience. D) rational thinking.

Psychology

Which of the following theorists viewed development as proceeding continuously, without dramatic shifts from one stage of development into another dissimilar stage?

a. Jean Piaget b. Sigmund Freud c. Erik Erikson d. Lev Vygotsky

Psychology