SPSS p for trend.pdf

ANALYSIS OF TREND CHAPTER 5 ERSH 8310 • Lecture 7 • September 13, 2007 Today’s Class  Analysis of trends… Using contrasts to do something a bit more practical.  Linear trends.  Quadratic trends.  Trends in SPSS. Today’s Example Data Training Times Yet Another Experiment  From p. 89: “Consider an experiment designed to test the proposition that subjects learn better when training is distributed or spaced over a period of time than when the training is massed all at once. We could investigate this question with just two groups, one group that receives massed training and another that receives training at spaced intervals. However, this study would allow only a restricted glimpse of the phenomenon. Instead we could conduct a more comprehensive study that included conditions with several different spacings. It would provide information about the form of the relationship between learning and the degree of distributed training, giving a much clearer picture of the spacing phenomenon.” The Task…  P. 89, continued… “The subject’s task is to track a spot moving in a random path around a computer screen, using a control stick to position a circle over it. Each subject has 10 one-minute practice trials learning how to track the spot. The independent variable is the time between practice trials: For one group the trials immediately follow another (0 seconds spacing – the massed condition); for a second group there is a 20- second pause between trials, for a third group there is a 40-second pause; and for the fourth group there is a 60-second pause. Twenty minutes after the last practice trial, each subject is given a 30- second test trial, and the dependent variable is the number of seconds that the subject is able to keep on the target. Suppose n=5 subjects are randomly assigned to the four groups. [The scores are given in the table on the next slide.]” Analys