Chapter 1-What is Psychology?

5. having to do with mental processes such as sensation and perception, memory, intelligence, language, thought, and problem solving
6. the school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind rather than the elements of experience
7. an association or a relationship among variables, as we might find between height and weight, or between study habits and school grades
9. a specific statement about behavior or mental processes that is tested through research
11. the school of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses
13. research conducted without concern for immediate applications
15. a sample drawn so that each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected to participate
17. a method of scientific investigation in which a large sample of people answer questions about their attitudes or behavior
18. part of a population
19. an organized way of using experience and testing ideas to expand and refine knowledge

1. a participant’s agreement to participate in research after receiving information about the purposes of the study and the nature of the treatments
2. is a complete group of interest to researchers, from which a sample is drawn
3. a way of evaluating the claims and comments of other people that involves skepticism and examination of evidence
4. the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns
8. a scientific method in which organisms are observed in their natural environments
10. the culturally defined concepts of masculinity and femininity
12. research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems
14. the school of psychology that argues that the mind consists of three basic elements— sensations, feelings, and images— that combine to form experience
16. The science that studies behavior and mental processes
20. a set of hypothesized statements about the relationships among events