Psychology A-Level
bar charts
What bar charts means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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A graph used for discrete categories, with spaced bars, a labelled vertical axis with units and an even scale starting at zero, and a horizontal axis labelling the categories.
Display data in categories or conditions, with gaps between the bars because there is no continuous scale along the bottom.
Topics that use bar charts
- Data handling and analysis (AQA A-Level)
- D.3 – graphs (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- anomalous scores
- Causation
- central tendency
- co-variables
- Coding
- Collection techniques
- experimental vs correlational data
- Histograms
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