Intro to Psychology as a Science

assigning participants to experimental and control groups by chance.

a testable prediction, often implied by a theory

consistently and objectivity of how tests are administrated and scored

an explanation using principles that organize observations and predict behaviors or events

We think we know more than we do

In- depth analyses of individuals or groups

the relationship between cause and effect

Who established the first psychology laboratory?

the interrelation of the unconscious and conscious mental and emotional forces

Who explored children's developing minds?

How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information

The science of behavior and mental processes

the quality of being logically or factually sound

One individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

Which is not one of the four Big Ideas in Psychology?

What kind of psychologist experiments with how we perceive, think and solve problems?

controversy over the relative influence of genes and experience in the development of behaviors

The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D.

results caused by expectations alone

Who believed psychology should study how consequences shape behavior?

a descriptive technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a group

a group that closely matches the characteristics of its population as a whole

Also known as the I-knew- it- all-along phenomenon

the middle number in a set of data

Which is not one of the three attitudes of The Scientific Attitude?