Let's assume you are conducting an experiment to determine the effect of a new drug on the incidence of epileptic seizures. You select 20 epileptics from the 150 epileptics being treated at a nearby hospital and administer the drug to them. You record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month. Then you record the number of seizures in each of the 20 subjects for one month
without the drug. Being compulsive, you also record the number of seizures for the remaining 130 epileptics for one month. The number of seizures for each of the 130 epileptics constitutes _________.
a. the dependent variable c. a statistic
b. data d. independent variable
B
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A. conjoined B. disparate C. virtual D. dizygotic
The eye-blink reflex is taken over by voluntary control when infants are more capable of controlling their muscles.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Grandparents may take on many different roles. Which of the following terms might be included among the many labels?
a) Fun seeker b) Surrogate parent c) Reservoir of family wisdom d) All of the above
According to the article Take a Whiff about mate choice and body odor, the group in the study who found odors from shirt wearers who were MHC similar to themselves to be pleasant were the:
(a) homosexual males (b) pregnant women (c) women taking birth control pills (d) other shirt wearers