Psychology Adventure Crossword Puzzle: Quiz #1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. A research method involving one or a few subjects.
  2. 3. The research method that looks at cause and effect relationships.
  3. 7. The tendency to underestimate situation influences on behavior and assume that some personal characteristic of the individual is responsible.
  4. 9. The effects of coaction and the presence of an audience.
  5. 10. The group that receives that placebo treatment in an experiment.
  6. 12. The type of statistical data that uses numbers to analyze the data in an experiment.
  7. 14. The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
  8. 15. A research method that takes place int he natural habitat of the subjects being observed.
  9. 16. The feeling that one has lost his or her personal identity and merged anonymously into a group.
  10. 19. Conforming with the majority over individual judgment.
  11. 20. When the subject number is equal to one (N=1), there is low __________ validity.
Down
  1. 1. The variable "r" that has a numerical value between -1.00 and +1.00.
  2. 2. The degree to which the independent variable causes the changes seen in the dependent variable being examined within the study.
  3. 4. The scientific study of mind and behavior.
  4. 5. The average deviation from the mean.
  5. 6. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examining the facts.
  6. 8. When people are less likely to help others when another person is present.
  7. 11. The group that is exposed to the variable(s) under study.
  8. 13. The name of the girl who was left in social isolation as a child.
  9. 17. The variable that has the effects on it measured in an experiment.
  10. 18. A ___________ variable is one that is extraneous to the others in an experiment, and affects the other variables in a relationship so that the results of the experiment are skewed.