PSY 1010 - Midterm Exam 1 Practice Questions and Correct Answers

Dr. Wolfe spent the last year studying a man named Jeremy. Jeremy had a stroke that destroyed a part of his brain called the hippocampus. Since his injury, Jeremy cannot create new memories of anything that has happened to him. The type of research Dr. Wolfe is engaged in is a(n) a. experiment. b. survey. c. case study. d. correlational study. c. case study. Consider an experiment in which participants take a pill that is either a medication or a placebo. The researchers want to determine the effect of the medication on depression. In this example, the control group would be a. the participants receiving the placebo. b. the medical personnel supplying the pill. c. the researchers conducting the study. d. the participants receiving the medication. a. the participants receiving the placebo. Consider an experiment in which participants watch various types of TV programs and are then observed while playing a physical game to determine the number of aggressive acts they emit. In this example, the independent variable would be the a. game played by the participants. b. type of TV programs watched. c. number of aggressive acts observed. d. gender of the participants. b. type of TV programs watched. Dr. Ford wants to test the hypothesis that room color can affect memory. To test this, he randomly assigns 10 students to a condition where they study a written passage while seated in a room that is painted a lilac color. The other 10 students study the passage while seated in an identical room that is painted bright orange. After both groups studied the passage for 1 hour, they were given a multiple-choice test over the material. Dr. Ford then calculated how many questions the students in both groups got right. In Dr. Ford's study, the dependent variable is the a. the color of the room in which the students studied the passage. b. the students' test scores. c. the students who scored highly on the test. d. the gender of the students. b. the student's test scores.