Across
- 1. A research method involving one or a few subjects.
- 3. The research method that looks at cause and effect relationships.
- 7. The tendency to underestimate situation influences on behavior and assume that some personal characteristic of the individual is responsible.
- 9. The effects of coaction and the presence of an audience.
- 10. The group that receives that placebo treatment in an experiment.
- 12. The type of statistical data that uses numbers to analyze the data in an experiment.
- 14. The variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
- 15. A research method that takes place int he natural habitat of the subjects being observed.
- 16. The feeling that one has lost his or her personal identity and merged anonymously into a group.
- 19. Conforming with the majority over individual judgment.
- 20. When the subject number is equal to one (N=1), there is low __________ validity.
Down
- 1. The variable "r" that has a numerical value between -1.00 and +1.00.
- 2. The degree to which the independent variable causes the changes seen in the dependent variable being examined within the study.
- 4. The scientific study of mind and behavior.
- 5. The average deviation from the mean.
- 6. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examining the facts.
- 8. When people are less likely to help others when another person is present.
- 11. The group that is exposed to the variable(s) under study.
- 13. The name of the girl who was left in social isolation as a child.
- 17. The variable that has the effects on it measured in an experiment.
- 18. 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.