Find the IV
Mary is testing the effects of drinking water or apple juice on running miles
This is the independent variable
What is water or apple juice?
Collin wants to see if having depression makes you more likely to call in sick for work
This is the dependent variable
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
This is the confound
What is setting?
To generalize results to different people, settings, and contexts, we try to increase _____ ______
What is external validity?
In the Dune franchise, this substance is known to enhance physical capabilities and longevity, but can be addictive and result in a blue within blue coloration of the eyes
What is the Spice Melange
Ryan is running an experiment to see if food tastes better after being injected with a new taste enhancing medication
This is the independent variable
What is taste enhancing medication?
Talia wants to know if anxiety depends on serotonin levels in the brain
This is the dependent variable
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.This is the confound
What is gender?
_______ variables are variables that are characteristics of our participants
What is subject?
The largest organ in humans
What is skin?
If you are testing how much people remember under semantic and phonemic conditions, this is your independent variable
What are conditions?
Frequency is usually measured as this
What is dependent variable?
Confounds hurt this type of validity
What is internal validity?
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, this is the independent variable
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
This is the confound
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 killer in the original Friday the 13th movie
Who is Pamela Voorhees (Jason Voorhees' mom)
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
These are the independent variables
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
These are the dependent variable
What are anxiety symptoms and side effects?
Subject variables, while sometimes confounds, can be used as ______ variables
What are independent variables?
A type of analysis that analyzes the same participants over multiple conditions or times
What is within-subjects analysis?
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?