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 ____________?

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1. 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

2. The subject concerned with studying human behavior in workplace is _____________?

   A. clinical psychology
   B. personality psychology
   C. industrial/organizational psychology
   D. psychiatry

3. 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

4. A variable such as the personality of a subject, that might affect he outcome of and experiment would be controlled by:

   A. random assignment of subjects
   B. assuming the effects of the variable are negligible
   C. manipulating the dependent variables simultaneously
   D. repeating the experiment several times until the results are consistent

5. Which TWO of the following statements are true of blocking?
   1: The phenomenon of blocking provides an interesting and much-studied instance of failure to learn, in spite of contiguous presentations of the CS and the US
   2: In a blocking experiment, animals receive training with what is termed a compound CS (Phase 2)
   3: The experimental group has first received a phase of training in which the US alone is conditioned (Phase 1)
   4: The experimental groups shows no (or very little evidence of learning about the CS that is presented in Phase 1

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 2 & 3
   C. 3 & 4
   D. 1 & 3

6. 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

7. 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

8. The conditions that researcher wishes to prevent from affecting the experiment are called:

   A. constants
   B. dependent variables
   C. extraneous variables
   D. independent variables

9. The group in an experiment which receives no treatment is called ____________?

   A. Control group
   B. Experimental group
   C. No group
   D. None of these

10. An experiment psychology lab was first established in 1879 by ____________?

    A. Rene Descartes
    B. William James
    C. Sigmund Freud
    D. None of the above