Terminology

4. The school of psychology that emphasizes the study of overt, observable behavior.
7. An entire group of animals or people belonging to a particular category (for example, all college students or all married women).
8. A system of ideas designed to interrelate concepts and facts in a way that summarizes existing data and predicts future observations.
10. In psychology, a public polling technique used to answer psychological questions.
12. To look within; to examine one’s own thoughts, feelings, or sensations.
13. The school of psychology concerned with how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their environments.

1. effect Changes in behavior due to participants’ expectations that a drug (or other treatment) will have some effect.
2. psychology A school of psychology emphasizing the study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not by analysis into parts.
3. variable In an experiment, the condition (usually a behavior) that is affected by the independent variable.
5. thinking (in psychology) A type of reflection involving the support of beliefs through scientific explanation and observation.
6. The existence of a consistent, systematic relationship between two events, measures, or variables.
9. A statement of the predicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables.
11. In scientific research, the process of naming and classifying.
14. study An in-depth focus on all aspects of a single person.