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?
In this design, a researcher examines the relationship between two continuous variables.
What is a correlational 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 comparison when testing the effect of a treatment.
What is the control group/condition?
In this design, a researcher compares groups but does not randomly assign Pps to condition (e.g., exploring whether men vs. women differ in emotional expression).
What is a quasi-experimental design/quasi-experiment?
A type of figure that shows the frequency of different scores in the sample.
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)?
What is the dependent variable?
These are the two required features of an experiment.
What are random assignment and manipulation of the IV?
Type of graph that depicts the relation between two continuous variables.
What is a scatterplot?
This team beat Iowa to win the Women's College Basketball Championship last season.
Who is South Carolina?
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?
A variable that measures an attribute but has no meaningful order of categories
What is a categorical/nominal variable?
In this design, a researcher collects extremely detailed data from just a few Pps in a hard-to-recruit population
What is a case study?
A measure of spread that captures the average distance of scores from the sample mean (in original units).
What is the standard deviation?
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande starred in Wicked in 2024. 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?
What is the third variable problem?
A term that characterizes a distribution of scores in which one of the tails of the distribution is disproportionately longer
What is skew/a skewed distribution?
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?