AP PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE

PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND ETHICS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The most frequently occurring number in a distribution.
A
Mean
B
Mode
C
Median
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Mode = Mode is that point where the frequencies in distribution are maximum. we can also define mode as the most commonly occurring value in a graph of distribution.

Detailed explanation-2: -The mode of a data set is the value that occurs most often. A data set can have no mode, one mode, or more than one mode.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mode: The most frequent number-that is, the number that occurs the highest number of times. Example: The mode of 4, 2, 4, 3, 2, 2 is 2 because it occurs three times, which is more than any other number.

Detailed explanation-4: -In statistics, the mode represents the most common value in a data set. Therefore, the mode is the value that occurs with the highest frequency in a data set (Mann 2012).

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