AP Psychology Unit 1 Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
  2. 5. In nature, most scores tend to form a symmetrical, bell-shaped distribution known as a...
  3. 6. occurs when the participants’ expectations, rather than the experimental treatment, produce a particular outcome.
  4. 8. Repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic results are similar with other participants and circumstances.
  5. 10. as one variable increases, the other also increases
  6. 11. Focuses on the scientific study of observable behavior and the environmental causes of that behavior
  7. 13. Researchers are responsible for keeping all of the data they gather on individuals completely confidential and, when possible, completely anonymous
  8. 15. the degree to which a research study produces stable and consistent results
  9. 16. The extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to
  10. 17. Focuses on a person’s positive qualities, the capacity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose one’s destiny
  11. 18. we humans tend to think we know more than we actually do
  12. 19. the idea that what we know comes from experience, and that observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge
  13. 20. A bar graph depicting a frequency distribution
  14. 21. the entire group about which the investigator wants to draw conclusions
Down
  1. 1. From among chance variations, nature selects traits that best enable an organism to survive and reproduce in a particular environment
  2. 2. Focuses on the ways in which social and cultural environments influence behavior
  3. 4. a method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
  4. 7. the gap between the lowest and highest scores
  5. 9. A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who are licensed to provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy
  6. 12. measures the relationship between two variables within the same population over time.
  7. 14. Perceiving a relationship where none exists, or perceiving a stronger-than-actual relationship
  8. 17. knew-it-all-along effect; the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that you could have predicted or foreseen it all along