psychology puzzle Crossword

the behavior or mental process that is measured in an experiment or quasi-experiment; the effect.
choosing of members of a population so that every individual has an equal chance of being chosen to participate in a study.
the factor the researcher manipulates in a controlled experiment; the cause.
a physical or psychological treatment given to the control that resembles the treatment given to the experimental group, but that contains no active ingredient.
factors that cause differences between the experimental group and the control group other than the independent variable.
a description of the specific procedure used to determine the presence of a variable.
research design in which participants don't know whether they are in the experimental or control group.
clues participants discover about the purpose of the study that suggest how they should respond.
consistency or repeatability of results.
the extent to which an instrument measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict.
measures the average difference between each score and the mean of the data set.
paired x and y scores for each subject are plotted as single points on a graph.
a way to statistically combine the results of individual research studies to reach an overall conclusion.
the condition that exists when the probability that the observed findings are due to chance is less than 1 in 20 (p <.05) according to some psychologists, or less than 1 in 100 (p <.01) according to those with more stringent standards.