Psychology Chapter 2

A method for learning about reality through systematic observation and experimentation

The practice of bsing conclusions on facts withough influence of personal emotion and bias

A research design that controls for placebo effects in which neither the participant nor the experimenter observing the participant knos whether the participant was given an an active substance or treatment or a placebo

An inactive substance or treatment that cannot be distinguished from a real, active substance or treatment.

The ability to think clearly, rationally, and independently

A set of facts and relationships between facts that can explain and predict related phenomena

A proposed explanation for a situation, usually taking the form "if A happens then B wiwll be the result".

A characteristic of a scientific hypothesis meaning that situations in which the hypothesis might be false can be imagined

A feature of a hypothesis that means it can be evaluated using known scientific methods

The process of having other experts examine research prior to its publication

Repeating an experiment and producing the same result

Research methods designed for making careful systematic observations

An indepth analysis of the behavior of one person or a small number of people

An indepth study of a phenomenon in its natural setting

A descriptive method in which participants are asked the same question