Psychology Worksheet

Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality
An outgoing, active person who directs his or her energies and interests toward other people and things
An individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
Protects the person from real events that are painful to accept, either by rejecting a fact or its seriousness
The most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach; seeks to identify people's inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots
To study how people think, feel, act
Established the first laboratory of experimental psychology in 1879
An approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
A phenomenon in which the participants' expectations, not the actual treatment, produce an outcome
An approach to psychology emphasizing a person's positive qualities and their capacity for positive growth
An experimental design in which neither the experimenter nor the participants are aware of which participants are in the experimental group and which are in the control group
An approach to psychology that examines the ways in which social and cultural environments influence behavior
The observation of behavior in a real-world setting