Across
- 1. A set of practices intended to make scientific research more reliable and more transparent to both scientists and the general public.
- 3. The process of informing research participants after a study of the purpose of the study, revealing any deception, and minimizing any harm that might have occured.
- 5. The primary computer database that catalogs research in psychology.
- 7. A definition of a variable or construct in terms of precisely how it will be measured.
- 10. A researcher who pretends to be someone that they are not in the context of an empirical study.
- 11. A question about the way the world actually is and can be answered by making systematic observations.
- 12. The problem of knowing whether two variables, X and Y, are statistically related because one causes the other or because some third variable, Z, causes both X and Y.
- 16. A set of beliefs or activities that is claimed to be scientific but lacks one or more of the three features of science.
- 18. All the published research in a particular field.
- 19. A theory that explains phenomena in terms of their function or purpose.
- 20. A type of journal article in which the author summarizes previous research on a particular topic.
Down
- 2. The process of obtaining and documenting participants' agreement to be in a study, having informed them of everything that might reasonably be expected to affect their decision.
- 4. A type of journal article in which the author reports on a new empirical research study.
- 5. A general result that has been observed reliably in empirical research. An established answer to a research question.
- 6. The tendency to notice and remember evidence that is consistent with what we already believe and to ignore evidence that is inconsistent with what we already believe.
- 8. People's intuitive beliefs about human behavior and mental processes.
- 9. A theory that specifies a series of stages that people passthrough as they develop or adapt to their enviorment.
- 13. The researcher's agreement with their participants not to reveal personal information about them except with their permission or as required by law.
- 14. Misleading participants about the purposes and procedures of the research- either by giving them false information or by withholding true information from them.
- 15. The extent to which a theory explains or interprets phenomena in as simple a way as possible.
- 17. The problem of knowing whether two variables, X and Y, are statistically related because X causes Y or because Y causes X.