Using a true experiment, we wish to test the hypothesis that music improves learning. Random
assignment into two groups (one that listens to music and one that studies in silence) would help us to
control for ______________. - Answers the students' use of different study strategies
In a true experiment, random assignment of subjects to groups will reduce the effects of ___________. -
Answers Extraneous Variables
Which part of the brain is superior at speech, language, math calculation, judging time and rhythm, and
coordinating the order of complex movements? - Answers Left Hemisphere
What range can correlation coefficients be expressed in? - Answers -1.00 to +1.00
What is the name that we give to the predicted outcome of an experiment? - Answers Hypothesis
Research reports begin with a very brief summary of the study and its findings. What is this part of the
report known as? - Answers Abstract
Which of the following brain tools can be used to map the location, shape, and size of brain structures in
living brains as well as any abnormal structures, such as tumours, that may be present? - Answers CT
and MRI scan
In the nervous system, what is the electrical charge of an inactive neuron called? - Answers Resting
Potential
During a lecture, when students receive information through their eyes from the notes on the screen
and information through their ears as the instructor lectures, the information will first travel through
neurons within which nervous system? - Answers Somatic
When we see a painting by George Seurat, the famous French impressionist, we tend to experience it as
a lovely landscape rather than the series of separate, differently-coloured dots of which the painting is
composed. This phenomenon illustrates which school of thought in psychology? - Answers Gestalt
Psychology
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow belong to which school of thought in psychology? - Answers
Humanistic Psychology
A psychologist discovers that the blood of patients with schizophrenia contains a certain chemical not
found in the general population. What can you conclude? - Answers The chemical and schizophrenia are
related, but no causal relationship has been established.
According to Robert Sternberg, a person with 'street smarts' has _____________. - Answers Practical
Intelligence
Emotional judgments are part of the __________ meaning of a word or concept. - Answers Connotative
Which condition does Trisomy-21 result in? - Answers Down Syndrome