Measurement & Methodology

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GRE Subject Test: Psychology › Measurement & Methodology

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Dr. Crawford believes she has invented a pill to help with student memorization. For a trial experiment, she gathered two groups of twenty students. She gave the twenty students in Group A the “smart pill”, and the twenty students in Group B a sugar pill. After waiting five minutes, both groups of students were given a list of forty words, and were instructed to memorize the entire list in any order. The students were given five minutes to memorize the list. The students were then asked to verbally recite all of the words they could remember in any order within three minutes.

Group A recited an average of fifteen words, while Group B recited an average of ten words.

In this experiment, what is the independent variable?

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Dr. Crawford believes she has invented a pill to help with student memorization. For a trial experiment, she gathered two groups of twenty students. She gave the twenty students in Group A the “smart pill”, and the twenty students in Group B a sugar pill. After waiting five minutes, both groups of students were given a list of forty words, and were instructed to memorize the entire list in any order. The students were given five minutes to memorize the list. The students were then asked to verbally recite all of the words they could remember in any order within three minutes.

Group A recited an average of fifteen words, while Group B recited an average of ten words.

In this experiment, what is the independent variable?

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Which of the following theorists is most commonly associated with projective personality testing?

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Which of the following kinds of diagrams is best to display nominal data?

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What is the appropriate inferential statistic to use when your data are from two or more groups of scores, with each score a measure of the same interval/ratio variable, and there are two independent variables and one dependent variable present?

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What is the appropriate inferential statistic to use when your data are from two or more groups of scores, with each score a measure of the same interval/ratio variable, and there are two independent variables and one dependent variable present?

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Which of the following kinds of diagrams is best to display nominal data?

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Which of the following theorists is most commonly associated with projective personality testing?

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Dr. Crawford believes she has invented a pill to help with student memorization. For a trial experiment, she gathered two groups of twenty students. She gave the twenty students in Group A the “smart pill”, and the twenty students in Group B a sugar pill. After waiting five minutes, both groups of students were given a list of forty words, and were instructed to memorize the entire list in any order. The students were given five minutes to memorize the list. The students were then asked to verbally recite all of the words they could remember in any order within three minutes.

Group A recited an average of fifteen words, while Group B recited an average of ten words.

In this experiment, what is the dependent variable?

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Dr. Crawford believes she has invented a pill to help with student memorization. For a trial experiment, she gathered two groups of twenty students. She gave the twenty students in Group A the “smart pill”, and the twenty students in Group B a sugar pill. After waiting five minutes, both groups of students were given a list of forty words, and were instructed to memorize the entire list in any order. The students were given five minutes to memorize the list. The students were then asked to verbally recite all of the words they could remember in any order within three minutes.

Group A recited an average of fifteen words, while Group B recited an average of ten words.

In this experiment, what is the dependent variable?

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