Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 1.1 College Success

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 1.1 College Success or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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The MyHomework app seeks to help students improve their organizational skills, study habits, and motivation. In which specialized field of psychology do practitioners work directly with students, parents, and teachers, with a focus specifically on how students learn?
From a humanistic perspective, we could say that the MyHomework app’s organizational and motivational tools are intended to help students overcome obstacles that might otherwise stifle their quest to grow into better students and thinkers, in order to bloom into their true selves. This process of personal growth is called .
Devon wants to test whether using the MyHomework app will actually improve his grades. To get a measure of the app’s success, he creates a statistic to represent the relationship between his test scores and number of times that he uses the app. This statistic is called a(n) .
Sofia struggles with poor study habits that leave her perpetually cramming for tests. She is convinced that she will never be organized. After using the MyHomework app for a month, she feels better prepared and more on track than ever before. Yet she is still convinced that she is a poor student. What common error in thinking is Sofia displaying?
The creators of the MyHomework app want to conduct experimental research to verify that their program can be used to improve students’ GPAs. In a class of 100 students, half of the students are instructed to use the MyHomework app, and half are allowed to use any other study program that they wish. At the end of the semester, the experimenters look at the grades of the two groups to determine if there is a difference. What is the dependent variable in this experiment?