In the control condition of an experiment the:

Related Mcqs:

1. In an experiment studying the effects of different drugs on reaction time, each subject is presented with all of the conditions in the experiment. This is an example of ____________?

   A. factorial design
   B. within subjects design
   C. between subjects design
   D. quasi-experimental design

2. If someone already spreads the rumor about an experiment for being assessment of racist attitudes and the subjects then take care of not showing racist attitudes. The result of experiment will be __________?

   A. invalid
   B. biased
   C. error
   D. unreliable

3. An experiment is performed to test the effects of sleep deprivation on rote memory. In this experiment, the dependent variable in the:

   A. number of hours subjects go without sleep
   B. rote memory scores
   C. number of subjects deprived of sleep in the experimental group
   D. correlation between hours of sleep and fatigue

4. In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers’ predictions, psychologists sometimes:

   A. treat information about individual participants confidentially
   B. deceive participants about the true purpose of an experiment
   C. allow subjects to pick whether they are in the experimental or control group
   D. allow people to decide for themselves whether they want to participate in an experiment

5. What procedure is used by experimenters to determine whether a difference between conditions of an experiment is large enough for us to have confidence in its validity?

   A. Correlation coefficient
   B. Scientific intuition
   C. Statistical analysis
   D. None of these

6. Solomon Asch designed an experiment in which participants made judgements about the length of lines. He was studying_________?

   A. Compliance
   B. Obedience
   C. Rule making
   D. Conformity

7. In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a videotape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella-toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrated:

   A. Retinal disparity
   B. Stroboscopic movement
   C. Perceptual constancy
   D. Inattentional blindness

8. who discovered the concept of classical conditioning in an experiment that involved lots of dog drool?

   A. Skinner
   B. Pavlov
   C. Guilford
   D. Rogers

9. An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning Two groups study the same material. one while listening to music. The independent variable is:

   A. learning
   B. the size of the group
   C. the material studied
   D. music

10. A simple experiment has two groups of subjects called:

    A. the dependent group and the independent group
    B. the extraneous group and the independent group
    C. the before group and the after group
    D. the control group and the experimental group