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| The study of human culture |
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| Research that focuses on solving particular practical problems |
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| Research that focuses on a general understanding of basic principles that can be applied to many different problems |
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| Theoretical approach that seeks to explain behavior in terms of learning principles, without reference to inner states, thoughts, or feelings |
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| Participants are exposed to only one level of the independent variable |
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| The study of what happens in the brain, nervous system, and other aspects of the body |
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| Branch of psychology that focuses on behavior disorders and other forms of mental illness, and how to treat them |
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| The study of thought processes |
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| A research assistant pretending to be another participant in a study |
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| Occurs when the effects of two variables cannot be separate |
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| Independent and Dependent |
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| A measure has convergent validity if it is highly correlated with similar measures |
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| The relationship or association between two variables |
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| A measure of how internally consistent items within a scale are (Scale of 1 to 10) |
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| Research studies that withhold information to be misleading |
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| Any clues in a study that suggests the researchers hypothesis |
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| The study of how people change over their lifetime |
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