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The Scientific Method
________ is a form of critical thinking based on
carefulcollectionof evidence, accurate description and
measurement, precisedefinition, controlledobservation, and
repeatable results
TERM 2
They alter people's expectations
DEFINITION 2
Placebos have such a strong effect on people because.
TERM 3
True
DEFINITION 3
Remembering your social security number would be consider
a covert behavior.
TERM 4
Independent variable
DEFINITION 4
The control group and the experimental group in an
experiment are treated exactly the same EXCEPT for the.
TERM 5
Watching a tv game show
DEFINITION 5
Which of the following behaviors can best be described as
overt behavior?
Pseudo-
The fortune teller who studies your palm carefully before
annoucing that great fortune lies in your immediate future is
practicing _______ psychology.
TERM 7
Help identify cause-and-effect relationships
DEFINITION 7
Experiments are used in psychology because they.
TERM 8
Describe, understand, predict, and control
behavior
DEFINITION 8
The goals of psychology are to
TERM 9
Neuroscience
DEFINITION 9
Biopsychologists and others who study the brain and nervous
system, such as biologists and biochemists form the broader
field of
TERM 10
The scientific method to study behavior
DEFINITION 10
Psychology is different fields such as history, law,
andbusinessbecause of the reliance on
All of these. dreams emotions slips of the
tongue
According to Freud, unconscious thoughts are often revealed
TERM 17
Your actions are controlled by rewards and
punishments
DEFINITION 17
Skinners contribution to behaviorism lies in his insistence
that
TERM 18
The dependent variable
DEFINITION 18
In an experiment to study the effects of fertilizer on plants,
the growth rate of the plants would be
TERM 19
Correlational
DEFINITION 19
You want to find out what relationship exists between high
school grades and college grades. You should use the _______
research method.
TERM 20
psychologists are interested in the behavior of
any living thing animal models often can be
applied to human behavior the study of
animals can benefit both animals and humans
DEFINITION 20
Animalsare used in psychological research because
soma
The main part of the neuron which collects and combines
information is called the
TERM 22
not able to catch the dollar bill because
neural processing takes more time
DEFINITION 22
A friend holds a dollar bill between your open fingertips.
Without warning, your friend releases the bill. You are
TERM 23
chemical; neurotransmitters
DEFINITION 23
Communications between neurons is considered to a _____
change involving _____.
TERM 24
Raise her endorphin levels
DEFINITION 24
Santana steps on a tack and jerks her foot back this pain will
