APA Style
APA is an acronym for this organization.
What is the American Psychological Association?
A variable whose values are chosen/manipulated by the researcher.
What is an independent variable?
Uses random assignment of participants to groups or conditions—to the different levels of the IV that is being manipulated. It is used to justify a causal conclusion.
What is an experiment/experimental design?
A calculated number based on the entire population.
What is a parameter?
The name of the section of the paper that describes participant characteristics, measures used in the study, and protocol.
What is the Method section?
The condition that provides a baseline or starting point for a comparison.
What is the control group?
In this design, a researcher does not directly manipulate the IV. For example, seeing the effects of gender on emotional expression.
What is a quasi-experimental design?
Graph that depicts frequencies on the y-axis and values of the variable on the x-axis.
What is a histogram?
This part of an APA-formatted reference citation for a journal article is ITALICIZED.
What is the title of the journal (and the volume number)?
This summer this person became the most decorated American female athlete in Olympic history.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
In this design, all levels of the independent variable are seen by each participant.
What is a within-subjects/repeated measures design?
Type of graph that depicts the relation between two continuous variables.
What is a scatterplot?
This is the only main section of an APA formatted paper that does NOT include its name as a heading within the document.
What is the Introduction?
This band will reunite for a major tour after putting aside a 15-year brotherly feud?
What is Oasis?
Term used to describe a study protocol whereby every participant in a study has an equal chance of being assigned to any of the conditions within an experiment.
What is random assignment?
One of the songs of the summer by this singer that is also a popular Italian beverage.
What is "Espresso" by Sabrina Carpenter?
If the authors of a 2020 paper are: K. M. Sylaska, N. C. Nickels, and A. X. Robbins, what would the parenthetical APA citation look like?
What is (Sylaska et al., 2020)?
A variable that can take any of the unlimited number of values in some range.
What is a continuous variable?
This movie was the top-grossing movie at the domestic box office for the summer of 2024.
What is Inside Out 2?
Type of skew when the mean is lower than the median and mode.
What is negative skew?