PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Dependent And Independent Variables, Confounding, Social Loafing

21. Professor Miller studies aggression in real world settings. In one study, he measured the number of times someone honked their horn at a stalled car. Honking the horn A) is the operational definition of aggression B) is the independent variable C) is the dependent variable D) is a confounding variable E) A) and C) above

42. Pressures toward thinking or acting like most other people refers to A) obedience B) de-individualization C) prosocial behaviour D) conformity E) bystander effects

16. A hypothesis is an) a unprovable assumption about the unobservable processes that underlie psychological functioning. b. set of principles that organizes observations and explains newly discovered facts, c. testable prediction that gives direction to research. d. observable relationship between specific independent and dependent variables.