Chapter 2 Vocabulary Crossword

The tendency to remember or notice information that fits one’s expectations, while forgetting or ignoring discrepancies.
Personal observation of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
School of psychology that considers behaviors in terms of active adaptations.
An old term describing the inability of introspectionists to become subjectively aware of some mental processes; an early term describing the cognitive unconscious.
Any physical energy that an organism senses.
School of thought in psychology that emphasizes study of observable actions over study of the mind.
Any muscular action, glandular activity, or other identifiable aspect of behavior.
Information that is provided by participants about their own thoughts, emotions or behaviors, typically on a questionnaire or during an interview.
The part of the mind of which we are subjectively unaware and that is not open to introspection.
Data that come from watching participants and recording their behavior.
The ability to freely make choices that are not controlled by genetics, learning, or unconscious forces; the idea that human beings are capable of making choices or decisions themselves.
Data that come from participants’ physiological processes including measures of the brain and heart, muscles, and the production of hormones.
The process of fully developing personal potentials.
The idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one’s choices and actions if all such causes were known.
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.
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
The study of human strengths, virtues, and effective functioning.
A tendency for females and female- related issues to be underrepresented in research, whether
The attempt to explain behavior in terms of underlying biological principles.
Rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of a group.
In research, an animal whose behavior is studied to derive principles that may apply to human behavior.
A psychologist who specializes in the treatment of psychological and behavioral disturbances or who does research on such disturbances.
A mental health professional who specializes in helping people with problems that do not involve serious mental disorders.
In psychology, being able to state the causes of a behavior.
In psychology, altering conditions that influence behavior.