Across
- 3. Observation observing an individual in an everyday environment; recording everything they’re doing without making environment changes
- 5. presence of others, environment, media
- 8. behavior observed, measured, and tested
- 9. relationship between two or more variables that does not imply causation; knowing one variable allows us to predict value of the other variable
- 11. receives experimental manipulation (treatment/IV)
- 13. looks at how one mentally processes information; examines how one thinks, perceives, understands information; decision making and memory
- 14. Areas of Specialization
- 15. behavior is shaped and controlled by one’s environment; studies observable behavior and the effects of learning
- 19. emotional, cognitive
- 21. process of assigning individuals to experiment or control group
- 22. only method that allows for determining cause; needs random assignment and manipulation of a variable
- 23. hormones, brain, genetics
- 24. results of forces within one’s personality at the unconscious level; think impulses, desires, conflicts, and Freud
- 25. every member of a subject-population has an equal chance of being represented
Down
- 1. manipulated variable
- 2. when the participants don’t know if they are in the experimental or control group (controls for placebo)
- 4. argues that behaviors are due to physiological, chemical, and biological processes
- 6. blind when the experimenter and participant don’t know who is in the experimental or control group (controls for both placebo and experimenter effect (gives clues to participants with how to respond via behavior, body language, tone of voice, etc.))
- 7. only describes behavior (no cause, no effect)
- 10. reports behaviors/opinions, questionnaire, less in depth
- 12. behavior is influenced by ones social and cultural environment
- 16. Genetics how much individual influence do our genes and environment have
- 17. No treatment OR some treatment with no effect (placebo)
- 18. behaviors are a result of an evolutionary process
- 20. Study gain as much information as possible from one individual