BSC2010 EXAM 1|70 REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS

Jimmy does a study that reveals that students that sleep full 8 hours perform well in their classes. So he says to his friend you sleep a full 8 hours therefore you must do well in your classes. What type of reasoning is this - ️️Deductive Reasoning A student designs the following experiment: He wants to test how effective 3 versions of a new sleeping pill is on patients which have insomnia. He creates 5 groups of patients all presenting with similar levels of insomnia. Group #1 receives a pill without any medicine in it (a placebo), Group #2, 3 and 4 each receive the the pill, and Group #5 receives a pill that is known to treat insomnia well. He will measure the effectiveness of the pill by how much sleep each patient is able to get. 2a.Which of the following is the positive control of this experiment ? - ️️Group 5 because it is actually treating the insomnia and it's been known to treat it A student designs the following experiment: He wants to test how effective 3 versions of a new sleeping pill is on patients which have insomnia. He creates 5 groups of patients all presenting with similar levels of insomnia. Group #1 receives a pill without any medicine in it (a placebo), Group #2, 3 and 4 each receive the the pill, and Group #5 receives a pill that is known to treat insomnia well. He will measure the effectiveness of the pill by how much sleep each patient is able to get. 2b.Which of the following is NOT a control for this experiment ? - ️️Group #1 because it's the placebo and it contains no medicine so therefore there would be no effect If I were to graph the data of hours slept vs taking insomnia medicine, the number of hours each patient sleeps is the _____ variable and the taking the medicine is the ______ variable. - ️️Dependent variable, independent variable Which of the following gives the weakest indication of life ? - ️️Unknown object that seems to grow over time