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100

Mary is testing the effects of drinking water or apple juice on running miles


The independent variable is

What is water or apple juice?

100

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?

100

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?

100

To generalize results to different people, settings, and contexts, we try to increase _____ ______

What is external validity?

100

The name of Harry Potter's pet owl

What is Hedwig?

200

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?

200

Talia wants to know if anxiety depends on serotonin levels in the brain

The dependent variable is

What is anxiety?

200

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?

200

_______ variables are variables that are characteristics of our participants

What is subject?

200

A fruit that resembles 60% of our DNA

What are bananas?

300

If you are testing how much people remember under imagery, rehearsal, and control conditions, your independent variable is

What are conditions?

300

Frequency is usually measured as

What is dependent variable?

300

Confounds hurt ______ validity

What is internal?

300

We use manipulation checks to increase ______ validity

What is construct?

300

The brain region associated with long-term memory storage

What is hippocampus?

400

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?

400

Independent variable is to predictor as dependent variable is to 

What is outcome?

400

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?

400

The _____ effect describes the tendency for extreme scores to move closer to the mean when repeat testing is done

What is regression?

400

The name of the camp in the horror film Friday the 13th

What is Camp Crystal Lake?

500

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?

500

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?

500

Subject variables, while sometimes confounds, can be used as ______ variables

What are independent variables?

500

A _____-Subjects analysis describes analyzing the same participants multiple times

What is within?

500

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?

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