Briana is studying the impact of room temperature on the speed at which students take a 50-question multiple choice exam. In this study, her participants' previous preferences for different temperature rooms is
A. the independent variable.
B. the dependent variable.
C. a confound.
D. the experimental group.
Answer: C
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b. Very young children do not form memories at all. c. Very young children form short-term, but not long-term memories. d. Very young children form long-term memories but forget them.
The effort to encode precise verbatim representations instead of fuzzy gists
a. is strongest in preschoolers. b. increases with age through adulthood. c. generally enhances the child's friendships. d. is less useful for math subjects than for other topics.
According to Horney, the feeling of being isolated and helpless in a potentially hostile world is called:
a. hostility b. basic disparagement c. anger d. basic anxiety
While not definitive, research does suggest a link between television exposure to sexual content and
a. acts of aggression. c. self-esteem. b. teen pregnancy. d. social withdrawal.