Mary is testing the effects of drinking water or apple juice on running miles
The independent variable is
What is water or apple juice?
Collin wants to see if having depression makes you more likely to call in sick for work
The dependent variable is
What is calling in sick?
Jack is studying studying strategies on word recall. He uses a sample of 50 people and includes a control group. He runs the test on one group in a lab, and the other group in a classroom
The confound is
What is setting?
To generalize results to different people, settings, and contexts, we try to increase _____ ______
What is external validity?
The name of Harry Potter's pet owl
What is Hedwig?
Ryan is running an experiment to see if food tastes better after being injected with a new taste enhancing medication
The Independent variable is
What is taste enhancing medication?
Talia wants to know if anxiety depends on serotonin levels in the brain
The dependent variable is
What is anxiety?
Toby runs a study looking at mental rotation of geometric shapes. He includes a sample of 50 people. 15 of his participants are male and 35 are female. They are within the age range of 25-30.The confound is
What is gender?
_______ variables are variables that are characteristics of our participants
What is subject?
A fruit that resembles 60% of our DNA
What are bananas?
If you are testing how much people remember under imagery, rehearsal, and control conditions, your independent variable is
What are conditions?
Frequency is usually measured as
What is dependent variable?
Confounds hurt ______ validity
What is internal?
We use manipulation checks to increase ______ validity
What is construct?
The brain region associated with long-term memory storage
What is hippocampus?
Tanya is performing a regression analysis in which social identity is used to predict long term mental health
Although not a full-experimental study, the independent variable is
What is social identity?
Independent variable is to predictor as dependent variable is to
What is outcome?
Alia runs a study testing reading ability as a function of getting a good night's sleep. She lets participants sleep in their own beds and self-report
The confound is
What is sleeping in their own beds?
The _____ effect describes the tendency for extreme scores to move closer to the mean when repeat testing is done
What is regression?
The name of the camp in the horror film Friday the 13th
What is Camp Crystal Lake?
Dwight is looking at how different treatments for obsessive compulsive disorder can reduce symptoms.
He is comparing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance & Commitment Therapy.
Also, he wants to see if having high vs. low anxiety has any effect
The independent variables are
What are treatments and anxiety levels?
Joy is studying the effects of genetic conditions and anxiety medications on anxiety symptoms and side effects of medications
The dependent variables are
What are anxiety symptoms and side effects?
Subject variables, while sometimes confounds, can be used as ______ variables
What are independent variables?
A _____-Subjects analysis describes analyzing the same participants multiple times
What is within?
The name of the infamous real life serial killer that inspired horror movie villains including Norman Bates (Psycho), Leatherface (Leatherface) and more
Who is Ed Gein?