Psychology 110  Terms & Vocabulary



                 (Corresponding to Chapter 1):

       behavior   mental process   critical thinking   description   explanation

       prediction   change   basic research   applied research   scientific method   theory

       hypothesis   operational definition   data   experimental method   independent variable

       dependent variable   experimental group   control group   experimenter bias   subject bias


       double-blind study   placebo   sample bias   social desireability   naturalistic observation   survey

       case study   correlational method   correlation coefficient   Wundt   Structuralism

       James (& Functionalism)   Freud   psychoanalysis   Watson   behaviorism    Sbiopsychosocial model



                 (And from Lectures):

       Fechner   Psychophysics   Donders   Külpe   imageless thought   Postivism

       methodological behaviorism   empirical method   hypothetico-deductive method   Popper   falsifiability

       competitive hypothesis testing   peer review   ecological validity   anthropomorphic fallacy

       within-S design   between-S design   ABA design   retrospective memory   demand characteristics

        descriptive vs. inferential statistics