History and Approaches + Research Methods

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Across
  1. 2. Research that is pure science aiming to increase the scientific knowledge base.
  2. 6. The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without reference to mental processes.
  3. 8. The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
  4. 10. __________ significance - A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result is by chance
  5. 11. The science of behavior and mental processes.
  6. 13. The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
  7. 14. arithmetic average of a distribution, obtained by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores
  8. 15. The perception of a relationship where none exists (a correlation)
  9. 16. post experimental explanation of a study to its participants
  10. 17. A testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
  11. 18. A technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in hopes of revealing universal principles.
  12. 19. Research that is the scientific study aiming to solve practical problems.
  13. 20. extent to which a test or experiment measures or predicts what it is supposed to
Down
  1. 1. Early school of thought using introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind (Wundt and Titchener)
  2. 3. computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score
  3. 4. ___________ consent-the ethical principle that research participants be told enough info for them to decide if they want to
  4. 5. The view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should rely on observation and experimentation.
  5. 7. Early school of thought exploring how mental and behavioral processes function (William James, influenced by Darwin)
  6. 9. A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders.
  7. 10. A technique for asserting the self-reported behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative.
  8. 12. The scientific study of the measurement of human abilities, attitudes, and traits.
  9. 15. The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.