Posted: July 17th, 2016

What is psychological testing?

10) Jackson is working with a company to help them develop more effective training programs for their employees. He has spent a great deal of time reviewing all the documents the company has about previous training opportunities they have provided for their employees. Up to this point in time , Jackson has been engaged in
a psychological testing
b archival research
c direct observation
d meta analysis

11) a group of researchers wanted to determone if people will eat more food in a room with red paint and red decorations than in a room that is decorated blue. Half the participants in the study ate in a red room and half ate in a blue room. the researchers then measured how much food was consumed in each of the two rooms. in this study the independent variable was
a the type of food that was available during the study
b the amount of food that was consumed
c the color of decorations in the room
d how hungry the participants were at the end of the study

12) an industrial designer wants to determine if the new design for a piece of office equipment will result in fewer errors. The designer sets up a machine with the old design in one room, and a machine with the new design in a second room. He counts how many errors are made using each of the two machines. In this study, the number of errors that are made would be
a a control variable
b the dependent variable
c the independent variable
d an extraneous variable