Kornell, Klein, and Rawson (2015) found that students performed well on exams the more practice questions they had completed. Moreover, it was the number of practice questions that students completed that mattered and not whether they got the questions correct.
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The number of practice questions completed is the [dependent // independent] variable.
The performance on the test is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Noted social psychologist, Gordon Allport, predicted that the more contact a person has with people from a different social group to themselves, the less prejudiced they will be towards that social group.
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Intergroup contact is the [dependent // independent] variable
Prejudice is the [dependent // independent] variable
Research shows that individuals who have higher IQs were spoken to more as young children.
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IQ as an adult is the [dependent // independent] variable
Being talked to as a child is the [dependent // independent] variable
Diemand-Yauman and colleagues (2011) found that people rememberd information better if that information was presented in text that was bolded and italicized compared to text that was presented without being bolded or italicized.
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Bolded vs. unbolded text is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Memory is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Oppenheimer (2006) varied how many complicated words were in a written piece. Some texts included a lot of complicated, large syllable words, other text used simpler language (the content of both texts was the same). He had participants read either the complicated or the simple text and rate the perceived intelligence of the author. He found that those who read the complex texts rated the author as less intelligent than those who read the simple texts.
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Intelligence of the author is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Complexity of the text is the [dependent // independent] variable.
In a meta-analysis performed by Curry and colleagues (2018), they found that people who perform more acts of kindness reported greater well-being.
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Well-being is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Acts of kindness is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Cohen and colleagues (2015) measured how many hugs their participants received over a 14-day period. They then brought their participants into the laboratory and exposed their participants to the rhino virus (the virus that causes the common cold). They found that respondents who reported receiving more hugs were less likley to develop a cold.
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Hugs are the [dependent // independent] variable.
Symptoms associated with the common cold is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Sotola and Crede (2020) found that students performed significantly better on their final exams if they had complete more (compared to fewer) practice questions.
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Practices quizzes is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Performance on the final exam is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Roediger and Karpicke (2006) had one set of students study a passage twice. Another set of students studied the same passage once and then took a practice test on the passage. One week later, the students who studied the passage once and took the practice quiz outperformed students who studied the passage twice (57% vs 40%).
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Whether the students studied the passage twice or studied the passage once and took a practice test is the [dependent // independent] variable.
Performance on the test one week later is the [dependent // independent] variable.