PSY 140 WEEK 1 Knowledge Check

PSY 140 WEEK 1 Knowledge Check
 Introduction to Psychology
Match the Key Term with the proper definition:
1.      Gestalt psychology	1.    School of thought based on the belief that human consciousness cannot be broken down into its elements.	
2.      Functionalism	2.    19th-century school of psychology that emphasized the useful functions of consciousness.	
3.      Humanistic psychology	3.    Subtle but potentially powerful unintentional influences on the dependent variable caused by experimenters' interacting differently with particpants in the experimental and the control groups.	
4.      Applied psychologists	4.    Psychologists who use knowledge of psychology to solve and to prevent human problems.	
5.      Introspection	5.    The process of looking inward at one's own consciousness.	
6.      Empirical evidence	6.    Evidence based on observations of publicly observable phenomena, such as behavior, that can be confirmed by other observers.	
7.      Hypothesis	7.    Prediction based on a theory that is tested in a study.	
8.      Formal experiment	8.    Research method that allows the researcher to manipulate the independent variable to study its effect on the dependent variable.	
9.      Experimenter bias	9.    Psychological view that human beings possess an innate tendency to improve and determine their lives by the decisions they make.	
10.      Dependent variable	10.    Variable whose quantitative value is expected to depend on the effects of the independent variable.