Week 1 Knowledge Practice
Across
- 4. (2 words) giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
- 6. gender _____: our sense of being male, female, neither, or some combination of male and female
- 7. the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
- 8. ____ bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
- 10. in psychology, the behavioral characteristics that people associate with boy, girl, man, and woman.
- 12. a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
- 14. the science of behavior and mental processes.
- 16. giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
- 18. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
- 19. an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. These prescribe "proper" behavior.
Down
- 1. ___ variable: in an experiment, a factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study's results.
- 2. (2 words)thinking that does not automatically accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
- 3. ___ variable: in an experiment, the outcome that is measured; the variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated.
- 5. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
- 8. ____ psychology: a historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential.
- 9. giving priority to the goals of ones' group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly
- 11. a set of expectations (norms)about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave
- 13. the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).
- 15. ___ effect: experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.
- 17. ___ variable: in an experiment, a factor that is being manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.