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?
These are two examples of measures of central tendency.
What are: mean, median, mode?
The 2026 Winter Olympics are being held in this city.
What is Milan?
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 person won the 2025 Heisman.
Who is Fernando Mendoza?
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)?
Oxford Dictionary's 2025 word of the year, this term describes online content deliberately designed to elicit outrage.
What is rage bait?
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 founding member of the Grateful Dead recently passed on January 10th, 2026.
Who is Bob Weir?
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 is the new Girl Scout cookie flavor for the 2026 season.
What are Exploremores?
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?
Megan Thee Stallion's boyfriend plays this sport.
What is basketball?
Timothee Chalamet was suspected of being this masked rapper.
Who is EsDeeKid?
If the authors of a 2020 paper are: K. M. Sylaska, N. C. McLean, 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 song+artist combination won best original song at the 2026 Golden Globes. Must list both!
What is Golden by HUNTER/X?
Type of skew when the mean is lower than the median and mode.
What is negative skew?
Katy Perry was holding this when she went to space.
What is a white flower?