Across
- 7. The ongoing process of fully developing one’s personal potential.
- 9. acceptance The tendency to believe claims because they seem true or because it would be nice if they were true.
- 12. A systematic approach to answering scientific questions
- 13. Any physical energy sensed by an organism.
- 15. A system of ideas designed to interrelate concepts and facts in a way that summarizes existing data and predicts future observations.
- 16. norms Rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of a group.
- 19. An arrangement in which participants remain unaware of whether they are in the experimental group or the control group.
- 21. Any muscular action, glandular activity, or other identifiable aspect of behavior.
- 22. Contents of the mind that are beyond awareness, especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person.
- 23. Unfounded belief held without evidence or in spite of falsifying evidence.
- 24. Rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of a group.
- 25. Experimental results that would rarely occur by chance alone.
Down
- 1. A small, randomly selected part of a larger population that accurately reflects characteristics of the whole population.
- 2. The use of chance (for example, flipping a coin) to assign subjects to experimental and control groups.
- 3. The school of thought concerned with analyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements.
- 4. Changes in participants’ behavior caused by the unintended influence of a researcher’s actions.
- 5. In psychology, a public polling technique used to answer psychological questions.
- 6. The scientific study of overt behavior and mental processes (covert behavior).
- 8. prophecy A prediction that prompts people to act in ways that make the prediction come true.
- 10. The focus on the importance of social and cultural contexts in influencing the behavior of individuals.
- 11. method A form of critical thinking based on careful measurement and controlled observation.
- 12. Changes in the behavior of research participants caused by the unintended influence of their own expectations.
- 14. An arrangement in which participants remain unaware of whether they are in the experimental group or the control group.
- 17. Any condition that changes or can be made to change; a measure, event, or state that may vary.
- 18. In psychology, understanding is achieved when the causes of a behavior can be stated.
- 20. observation An empirical investigation structured to answer questions about the world in a systematic and intersubjective (observations can be reliably confirmed by multiple observers) fashion.