Psychology Adventure Crossword Puzzle: Quiz #1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Variable / What is manipulated in an experiment.
  2. 5. Intervention / When people are less likely to help others when another person is present.
  3. 8. / The feeling that one has lost his or her personal identity and merged anonymously into a group.
  4. 10. Variable / What has the effects on it measured in an experiment.
  5. 11. Statistics / The type of statistical data that uses numbers to analyze the data in an experiment.
  6. 14. / An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examining the facts.
  7. 15. Group / The group that is exposed to the variable(s) under study.
  8. 18. Group / The group that receives that placebo treatment in an experiment.
  9. 21. / A ___________ variable is one that is extraneous to the others in an experiment, and affects the other variables in a relationship so that the results of the experiment are skewed.
  10. 23. / The research method that looks at cause and effect relationships.
  11. 25. Deviation / The average deviation from the mean.
  12. 26. Study / A research method involving one or a few subjects.
Down
  1. 1. / A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member
  2. 2. / The average for a set of numbers.
  3. 3. Statistics / The type of statistical data that makes conclusions as to whether the hypothesis was supported by the data.
  4. 6. / The name of the girl who was left in social isolation as a child.
  5. 7. Attribution Error / The tendency to underestimate situation influences on behavior and assume that some personal characteristic of the individual is responsible.
  6. 9. Observation / A research method that takes place int he natural habitat of the subjects being observed.
  7. 12. Coefficient / The variable "r" that has a numerical value between -1.00 and +1.00.
  8. 13. / When the subject number is equal to one (N=1), there is low __________ validity.
  9. 14. / The scientific study of mind and behavior.
  10. 16. / The difference between the highest value and lowest value in a set of numbers.
  11. 17. Asche Effect / Conforming with the majority over individual judgment.
  12. 19. / The number which appears most often in a set of numbers.
  13. 20. / The midpoint in a set of numbers
  14. 22. / A social group to which an individual does not identify psychologically.
  15. 24. Validity / The degree to which the independent variable causes the changes seen in the dependent variable being examined within the study.
  16. 25. Facilitation / The effects of coaction and the presence of an audience.