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| An active study-reading technique based on these steps, survey, question, read, recite, reflect, review. |
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| an empirical investigation structure to answer questions about the world in a systematic and intersubjective fashion. (observations can be reliably confirmed by multiple observers) |
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| The tendency to believe generally positive or flattering descriptions of oneself. |
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| A form of critical thinking based on critical measurement and controlled observation. |
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| The predicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables. |
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| Defining a scientific concept by stating the specific actions or procedures used to measure it. For example, "hunger" might be defined as "the number of hours of food deprivation" |
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| A system of ideas designed to interrelate concepts and facts in a way that summarizes exisiting data and predicts future observations. |
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| The school of thought concerned with analyzing sensations and personal experience into basic elements. |
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| The school of psychology concerned with how behavior and mental abilities help people adapt to their enviroments. |
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| A school of psychology emphasizing the study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not by analysis into parts. |
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| A psychologist who specializies in treatment of psychological and behaviorial distubances or who does research on such disturbances. |
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| A formal trial undertaken to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about cause and effect. |
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| In an experiment the condiion that is affected by the independant variable |
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| In an experiment, the condition being investigated as a possible cause of some change in behavior. The values that this variable takes are chosen by the experiementer. |
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| Changes in behavior due to participants expectations that a drug will have some effect. |
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| The study of progressive changes in behavior and abilites from conception to death. |
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