Week 1 Knowledge Practice

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Across
  1. 4. (2 words) giving potential participants enough information about a study to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate
  2. 6. gender _____: our sense of being male, female, neither, or some combination of male and female
  3. 7. the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
  4. 8. ____ bias: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.
  5. 10. in psychology, the behavioral characteristics that people associate with boy, girl, man, and woman.
  6. 12. a measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other.
  7. 14. the science of behavior and mental processes.
  8. 16. giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
  9. 18. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
  10. 19. an understood rule for accepted and expected behavior. These prescribe "proper" behavior.
Down
  1. 1. ___ variable: in an experiment, a factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study's results.
  2. 2. (2 words)thinking that does not automatically accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, appraises the source, discerns hidden biases, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
  3. 3. ___ variable: in an experiment, the outcome that is measured; the variable that may change when the independent variable is manipulated.
  4. 5. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory.
  5. 8. ____ psychology: a historically significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential.
  6. 9. giving priority to the goals of ones' group (often one's extended family or work group) and defining one's identity accordingly
  7. 11. a set of expectations (norms)about a social position, defining how those in the position ought to behave
  8. 13. the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most psychologists today agree with (1) but not with (2).
  9. 15. ___ effect: experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which the recipient assumes is an active agent.
  10. 17. ___ variable: in an experiment, a factor that is being manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.