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
Related Mcqs:
- In my experiment I am going to investigate how sleep affects anxiety. The number of hours of sleep the subjects have been called the _________________variable.
A. control
B. experiential
C. dependent
D. independent - Professor Saxton was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of these findings?
A. the case study
B. naturalistic observation
C. random sampling
D. replication - 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 - 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 - The earliest studies of verbal learning and rote memory were conducted by __________________?
A. Thorndike
B. Pavlov
C. Miller
D. Ebbinghaus - 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 - We wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. We compare test scores of students who study to music with those who study in silence, Which of the following is an extraneous variable in this experiments?
A. the presence or absence of music
B. the students test scores
C. the amount of time allowed the studying
D. silence - Dr. Jamil wants to study the effects of poverty on one’s self concept. To do this he interviews a group of subjects from the inner city once every five years for a period of 30 years. This experiment is an example of what type-of study?
A. Correlational study
B. cross sectional study
C. Gesell’s dome
D. longitudinal study - in the traditional learning experiment, the effect of practice on performance is investigate(d) performance is the ______________ variable.
A. independent
B. extraneous
C. dependent
D. control - In the simplest experiment, the two groups of subjects are treated exactly alike except for the ______________ variable.
A. independent
B. dependent
C. extraneous
D. hypothetical theory formulation
