Author Question: Dr. Schmo is doing a study examining the effects of fear on midterm grades in a psychology course. ... (Read 36 times)

TFauchery · **on:** Aug 4, 2018

Dr. Schmo is doing a study examining the effects of fear on midterm grades in a psychology course. He sets up three conditions (high fear, moderate fear, no fear). An appropriate manipulation check would be

A) to give a test of fear to participants and compare the three groups.
B) to give an alternative psychology midterm.
C) to compare test scores between three groups.
D) None of the above

Question 2

In experimental studies, it is important to design experiments so that

A) unsystematic error is increased.
B) extraneous variance is maximized.
C) experimental conditions are clearly different from each other.
D) nonexperimental conditions are clearly different from each other.