Terms and Concepts to Remember

Test yourself on these terms by trying to write down the definition in your own words before clicking on the terms to check your answer.

behaviorism

humanistic psychology

cognitive neuroscience

psychology

critical thinking

biopsychosocial approach

culture

nature-nurture issue

dual processing

positive psychology

hindsight bias

theory

hypothesis

operational definition

replication

case study

naturalistic observation

survey

population

random sample

correlation

scatterplot

experiment

random assignment

experimental group

control group

placebo [pluh-SEE-bo]

double-blind procedure

placebo effect

independent variable

confounding variable

dependent variable

informed consent

debriefing

testing effect

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