[Date] Pearson
Edexcel Level 3
GCE
PSYCHOLOGY
Advanced
Subsidiary
PAPER 2
QUESTION
PAPER JUNE
2023 8PSO/02
: Social and Cognitive
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, FORMULAE AND STATISTICAL TABLES
Standard deviation (sample estimate)
AREA
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Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient
Critical values for Spearman’s rank
Level of significance for a one-tailed test
0.05 0.025 0.01 0.005 0.0025
Level of significance for a two-tailed test
N 0.10 0.05 0.025 0.01 0.005
5 0.900 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
22 0.361 0.425 0.496 0.544 0.586
23 0.353 0.415 0.486 0.532 0.573
24 0.344 0.406 0.476 0.521 0.562
25 0.337 0.398 0.466 0.511 0.551
26 0.331 0.390 0.457 0.501 0.541
27 0.324 0.382 0.448 0.491 0.531
28 0.317 0.375 0.440 0.483 0.522
29 0.312 0.368 0.433 0.475 0.513
30 0.306 0.362 0.425 0.467 0.504
The calculated value must be equal to or exceed the critical value in this table for
significance to be shown.
2
, Chi-squared distribution
formula
2 (0!𝐸)2 𝑑𝑓 = 𝑟 − 1 𝑐 − 1
𝑋𝑋 =
𝐸
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Critical values for chi-squared distribution
Level of significance for a one-tailed test
0.10 0.05 0.025 0.01 0.005 0.0005
Level of significance for a two-tailed test
df 0.20 0.10 0.05 0.025 0.01 0.001
1 1.64 2.71 3.84 5.02 6.64 10.83
2 3.22 4.61 5.99 7.38 9.21 13.82
AREA
70 79.72 85.53 90.53 95.02 100.43 112.32
The calculated value must be equal to or exceed the critical value in this table for
significance to be shown.
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