AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT ONE (SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS)

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Across
  1. 2. early school of psychology that thought you could decode the mind by just thinking about it
  2. 3. study, an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
  3. 6. study of brain activity linked with mental activity and how we perceive, process, and remember information
  4. 8. a repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding generalizes to other participants & circumstances
  5. 9. branch of psychology that helps people cope with challenges and crises to improve their personal and social functioning
  6. 10. controversy over the contributions of biology (genes) and experiences in the development of psychological traits and behaviors (psychology's biggest issue)
  7. 14. a testable prediction often implied by a theory
  8. 16. observation, observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
  9. 19. branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
  10. 21. branch of psychology that studies the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principals of natural selection
  11. 22. branch of psychology that studies how the body and brain enable emotions
  12. 24. blind, an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant(blind) about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies.
  13. 25. the science of behavior and mental processes
  14. 27. the focus on the current environmental effects on a person's growth potential
  15. 28. definition, a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables.
  16. 29. branch of psychology that assess and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
  17. 30. study of observable behavior
Down
  1. 1. study of how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
  2. 4. school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function and how these enable us to adapt
  3. 5. application of psychology's concepts and methods in the workplace to help organizations and companies select and train employees, boost morale, design products, and implement systems
  4. 7. coefficient, a statistical measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
  5. 11. Latin for "I shall please" an inert substance or condition that may be administered instead of a presumed active agent, such as a drug, to see if it triggers the effects believed to characterize the active agent
  6. 12. approach, an approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
  7. 13. selection, the principle that nature selects the traits that best enable an organism to survive and passes them on to future generations
  8. 15. a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them
  9. 17. study of mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  10. 18. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes & predicts observations
  11. 20. study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
  12. 23. study of behavior and thinking with experiments
  13. 26. bias, the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it (aka. the I knew it all along phenomenon