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?
Possessing this word (Oxford's word of the year for 2023) means you are able to charm or attract others.
What is rizz?
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?
Who is Nikki Glaser?
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)?
Last year, Kylie Jenner made her Golden Globes debut with this current love interest.
Who is Timothee Chalamet?
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?
Who is Hailee Steinfeld?
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 former bachelor won the 2024 Dancing with the Stars.
Who is Joey Graziadei?
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?
This artist is performing at this year's Super Bowl halftime show.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande starred in Wicked in2024. This Bridgerton actor played Fiyero, Elphaba's love interest.
Who is Jonathan Bailey?
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?
Dolphins wide receiver dates this famous Tik Tok star. Name her and her sister.
Who are Alix and Ashtin Earle?
Type of skew when the mean is lower than the median and mode.
What is negative skew?
Moo Deng, the adorable pygmy hippo that lives in Thailand, went viral in September this past year. The name Moo Deng, which was chosen by a poll on social media, - means THIS in English.
What is bouncy pork, or meatball?