Dr. Cortez is carrying out an experiment dealing with the effects of caffeine on learning. His independent variable consists of two groups of college students, where one group receives 10mg of caffeine, and the other group receives 30mg of caffeine
The dependent variable consists of the frequency of items recalled correctly from a previously memorized word list. In this case, Dr. Cortez is hoping to find
a. systematic variance from the extraneous variables.
b. nonsystematic variance from the independent variable.
c. systematic variance from the independent variable.
d. none of the above
c
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According to the discussion of creativity,
a. various measures of creativity are highly correlated with one another. b. divergent production involves finding the one way in which many different items are related to one another. c. creative solutions must be novel and useful. d. psychologists agree upon a definition of creativity, but not on a way to measure it.
A state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced awareness of surroundings, and that is accompanied by an enhanced state of suggestibility is called __________
a. hypnosis b. focused meditation c. mindfulness d. open meditation