Chapters 1-4 Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. A set of practices intended to make scientific research more reliable and more transparent to both scientists and the general public.
  2. 3. The process of informing research participants after a study of the purpose of the study, revealing any deception, and minimizing any harm that might have occured.
  3. 5. The primary computer database that catalogs research in psychology.
  4. 7. A definition of a variable or construct in terms of precisely how it will be measured.
  5. 10. A researcher who pretends to be someone that they are not in the context of an empirical study.
  6. 11. A question about the way the world actually is and can be answered by making systematic observations.
  7. 12. The problem of knowing whether two variables, X and Y, are statistically related because one causes the other or because some third variable, Z, causes both X and Y.
  8. 16. A set of beliefs or activities that is claimed to be scientific but lacks one or more of the three features of science.
  9. 18. All the published research in a particular field.
  10. 19. A theory that explains phenomena in terms of their function or purpose.
  11. 20. A type of journal article in which the author summarizes previous research on a particular topic.
Down
  1. 2. The process of obtaining and documenting participants' agreement to be in a study, having informed them of everything that might reasonably be expected to affect their decision.
  2. 4. A type of journal article in which the author reports on a new empirical research study.
  3. 5. A general result that has been observed reliably in empirical research. An established answer to a research question.
  4. 6. The tendency to notice and remember evidence that is consistent with what we already believe and to ignore evidence that is inconsistent with what we already believe.
  5. 8. People's intuitive beliefs about human behavior and mental processes.
  6. 9. A theory that specifies a series of stages that people passthrough as they develop or adapt to their enviorment.
  7. 13. The researcher's agreement with their participants not to reveal personal information about them except with their permission or as required by law.
  8. 14. Misleading participants about the purposes and procedures of the research- either by giving them false information or by withholding true information from them.
  9. 15. The extent to which a theory explains or interprets phenomena in as simple a way as possible.
  10. 17. The problem of knowing whether two variables, X and Y, are statistically related because X causes Y or because Y causes X.