Across
- 6. The maximum number of participants who can be chosen for the sample.
- 8. Repeating the research study to see if the findings apply to additional people and situations.
- 10. The belief that knowledge comes from experience and that science should therefore be based on observation and experimentation.
- 12. The middle score is the result of putting all of the scores in numerical order.
- 13. A assumption about the relationship between two events or factors that can be tested.
- 14. Dissect emotions, pictures, and feelings to their most fundamental components.
- 16. The score that appears the most frequently in the distribution.
- 17. Added up scores and divided by the total number of scores to get the average.
- 18. A phony medication that can, in some situations, elicit a very real response.
Down
- 1. The scientific study of assessing human talents, attitudes, and characteristics.
- 2. Subtracting the lower score from the higher score.
- 3. A group's persistent practices, ideas, values, attitudes, and traditions.
- 4. Early school of thinking influenced by Darwin and pushed by James that looked at how mental and behavioral processes work and how they help the organism adapt, live, and thrive.
- 5. A research method in which data is gathered by asking a series of questions to a large number of people.
- 7. The belief that psychology should be a scientific discipline that investigates behavior without regard for mental processes.
- 9. The investigator manipulates one or more elements to see what effect they have on a behavior or mental process.
- 11. A branch of medicine that deals with psychological illnesses; it is handled by doctors who may give both medical and psychological treatment.
- 15. Connects concepts, organizes them, and predicts behavior or events.