You are growing venus fly traps in your fall garden and wonder which type of food will make your fly traps grow the biggest.  As a good general psychology student, you decide to perform an experiment.  You decide to test whether ants (the normal food for fly traps, despite their name) or crickets cause the fly traps to grow taller.  Using this information: What is the independent variable for your experiment? 2 points       What is the dependent variable for your experiment? 2 points       Describe your experimental group. 2 points         Describe your control group. 2 points         If you do not design your experiment well, what could be a potential confounding variable? 2 points

Match the descriptions with the brain regions listed below.  Write the letter of each brain region next to each question number.  Choices will be used once or not at all. 2 points each     Frontal lobe Occipital lobe Parietal lobe Temporal lobe Thalamus Hypothalamus Amygdala Hippocampus Cerebellum Midbrain Pons Medulla     This part of the brain is involved in negative emotions, like fear and aggression.   This part of the brain is involved in memory.   This part of the brain is involved in balance and coordination and is impaired with alcohol.

True or False: A good hypothesis must be falsifiable and testable. 1 point

True or False: When you make conclusions about your research, you determine whether your results support your hypothesis.  If your results support your hypothesis, that means your research study was performed perfectly and there is no need to assess whether there were any human errors, confounding variables, or other factors that influenced your results. 1 point

It is important for research to be performed ethically.  What are some of the ethical principles that researchers must consider as they design their experiments? Respect for persons: subjects must give informed consent. Beneficence: studies should not have any negative impact on the wellbeing of the subjects. Justice: making sure subjects are not exploited, especially vulnerable groups of people like children and infants. All of the above are ethical principles that researchers must consider.

_______ is associated with the development of functionalism, while _____ is associated with the development of structuralism. Wilhelm Wundt…Sigmund Freud William James…Wilhelm Wundt Wilhelm Wundt…William James B.F. Skinner…William James

You found a scientific article about a research group that studied the influence of the change in seasons on dam building activity in beavers.  The paper describes novel work performed by the researchers.  You found a second paper describing and summarizing all the current research on beavers.  What kinds of papers did you find? The first paper is a review article and the second is a primary research article The first paper is a theoretical review article and the second is a meta-analysis The first paper is a meta-analysis and the second is a primary research article The first paper is a primary research article and the second is a review article

Journey of Transformation centers on perennial questions central but not exclusive to the Catholic intellectual tradition. These questions raise fundamental concerns about what it means to be human and the kind of personal and communal transformation needed to promote a meaningful life. In a 750-1000 word essay, please respond to the following: What form of personal and/or communal transformation is needed to promote a meaningful life?  Explain how your ideas about this transformation—the personal and/or the communal—have been shaped by two different kinds of texts we read in this course.

What is the Open Science Framework?

Using the framework of Crocker and Algina for test construction, briefly list the key steps you would follow if you were to develop a 25-item job satisfaction measure for teachers.