Introducing Psychology

4. Methods for remembering items by relating them to information already held in the brain.
5. The systematic way of dispensing rewards and punishments.
6. The scientific study of the mental processes and behavior of organisms.
8. A method of self-observation in which subjects report on their thoughts and feelings.
10. A medical specialty that involves the study, diagnosis, and treatment of mental disorders.
11. Discovering ways to use scientific finding to accomplish practical goals.
14. An educated guess about the relationship between two variables.
15. Published Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Developments, as well as studied genetics.

1. The pursuit of knowledge about natural phenomena for its own sake.
2. A method used by psychoanalysts to examine the unconscious. The patient is instructed to say whatever comes to mind.
3. Changes that occur as an individual matures.
7. Founder of the theory and discipline of psychoanalysis.
9. The combination of characteristics that form an individual’s distinctive character.
12. Physical state.
13. Mental.