Psychology Vocab

3. a proposition made as a basis for reasoning, without any assumption of its truth
4. a harmful pill, medicine, or procedure prescribed more for the psychological benefits to the pt than for any physiological effect
7. approach interactions between people's genetic makeup (biology), mental health and personality (psychology), and sociocultural environment (social world) contribute to their experience of health or illness.
8. group composed of participants who do not receive the experimental treatment.
9. the theory that human and animal behavior can be explained
11. psychology focused on each individual's potential and stressed the importance of growth and self-actualization.
13. the customer, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people or other social group
14. the action of copying or reproducing something
16. investigate the opinions or experience of by asking them questions
18. a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery
19. processing theory provides an account of how thought can arise in two different ways, or as a result of two different processes

1. thinking the objective analysis and evaluation of an issue in order to form a judgement
2. in or ready for use
5. issue debate involves the extent to which particular aspects of behavior are a product of either inherited or acquired influences
6. a set of principles on which the practice of an activity is based
10. bias "knew-it-all-along"
12. a variable whose variation does not depend on that of another
15. a mutual relationship or connections between two or more things
17. a variable whose value depends on that of another