1 the number of questions asked by a customer

during a simulated encounter with a salesperson 18 the number of false alarm responses in a
- ratio monitoring task - ratio

2 the religious group that one affiliates with - 19 the types of gramatical errors made in a
nominal writing sample - nominal

3 the time it takes to complete a checking task
- ratio
4 the score on a 35-item scale of ambivalence
- interval
20 one's ice cream preference - nominal
21 how quickly a person gives up on an
impossible task that looks like it should be
possible - ratio

5 the rank of a person's salary within the
company - ordinal
6 rank order based on IQ score in the sample -
ratio
7 the square footage of each participant's
house or apartment - ratio
8 the size of the cerebellum expressed as a
volume - ratio
9 the number of frustrated comments made
during a laboratory negotiation task - ratio
10 the time it takes for a couple to resolve a
custody issue during court ordered mediation -
ratio
22 a student's SAT score - interval
23 the percentile rank from an achievement test
- ordinal
24 the type of categorization errors in a sorting
task - nominal
25 the pattern of scores on the MMPI
personality inventory - nominal
26 the age at which one went on his or her first
date - ratio
27 the number of children in your family - ratio
28 the score on an anxiety sensitivity scale -
interval

11 score on the Beck Depression Inventory (a
pencil and paper depression scale - interval
12 ratings of anger shown by those involved in
courtroom testimony - ordinal
29 whether one has a pet - nominal
30 the teacher's rankings of cooperativeness in
the classroom - ordinal

13 the number of pound lost during a six-week

diet - ratio

14 the proportion of weight lost during a six-

week diet - ratio

15 the heart rate of the participant - ratio

16 the percent shift in heart rate over baseline

during an emotionally demanding task - ratio

17 the percent of errors made on a classification

task - ratio