Across
- 2. early school of psychology that thought you could decode the mind by just thinking about it
- 3. study, an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
- 6. study of brain activity linked with mental activity and how we perceive, process, and remember information
- 8. a repeating the essence of a research study, usually with different participants in different situations, to see whether the basic finding generalizes to other participants & circumstances
- 9. branch of psychology that helps people cope with challenges and crises to improve their personal and social functioning
- 10. controversy over the contributions of biology (genes) and experiences in the development of psychological traits and behaviors (psychology's biggest issue)
- 14. a testable prediction often implied by a theory
- 16. observation, observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
- 19. branch of psychology that studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior
- 21. branch of psychology that studies the roots of behavior and mental processes using the principals of natural selection
- 22. branch of psychology that studies how the body and brain enable emotions
- 24. blind, an experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant(blind) about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo. Commonly used in drug-evaluation studies.
- 25. the science of behavior and mental processes
- 27. the focus on the current environmental effects on a person's growth potential
- 28. definition, a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables.
- 29. branch of psychology that assess and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
- 30. study of observable behavior
Down
- 1. study of how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
- 4. school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function and how these enable us to adapt
- 5. application of psychology's concepts and methods in the workplace to help organizations and companies select and train employees, boost morale, design products, and implement systems
- 7. coefficient, a statistical measure of the extent to which 2 factors vary together and thus of how well either factor predicts the other
- 11. Latin for "I shall please" an inert substance or condition that may be administered instead of a presumed active agent, such as a drug, to see if it triggers the effects believed to characterize the active agent
- 12. approach, an approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
- 13. selection, the principle that nature selects the traits that best enable an organism to survive and passes them on to future generations
- 15. a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them
- 17. study of mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 18. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes & predicts observations
- 20. study of physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
- 23. study of behavior and thinking with experiments
- 26. bias, the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it (aka. the I knew it all along phenomenon