Imagine you are a psychologist researching the effects of parents helping children with homework on the children's grades. What would you do in order to conduct an experiment to study this topic? What is the independent variable?
What is the dependent variable?
What will be an ideal response?
* The response might indicate which one of the four research approaches would be the most appropriate and identify the independent variable as parental help and the dependent variable as the child's grades.
You might also like to view...
When cleaning her closet, Nadia finds her 20-year-old wedding photo album. As she flips through the pictures, she starts to cry joyful tears. Seeing the photos and rekindling the emotions of her wedding day most likely activated her
a. thalamus. b. prefrontal cortex. c. amygdala. d. medial temporal lobe.
Sensation is to ____ as perception is to ____.
A. monocular; binocular B. meaningless; meaningful C. similarity; simplicity D. JND; Weber's Law
The group that accounts for one-fourth of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases is
A) men. B) women. C) Whites. D) Hispanics.
Empiricism is the premise that __________ should be acquired through _____________
A) ?knowledge; observation. B) ?science; speculation. C) ?hypotheses; control groups. D) ?data; experiences.