The Scientific Method and Psychology Quiz

Asking individuals about their behavior

To anticipate future behavior

Causal predictions explain why behavior happens, while descriptive predictions describe what happened

<p>Internal factors and external factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making behavior happen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social media influence</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand the basis of people's behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Objective observation and subjective observation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They must be objective observations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of procedures used for gathering and interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes errors and yields dependable generalizations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The study of the behavior of individuals and their mental processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The observable actions by which an organism adjusts to its environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Describing what happens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No, psychology diagnoses different diseases in different countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of procedures used for gathering and interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes errors and yields dependable generalizations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Smoking is a conditioning thing like you can smoke when you feel stressed to comfort you</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The observable actions by which an organism adjusts to its environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A set of procedures used for gathering and interpreting objective information in a way that minimizes error and yields dependable generalizations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The observable actions by which an organism adjusts to its environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To make future observations or testable statements about behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To explain behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Objective</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Smoking is conditioning</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To manipulate or regulate variables to observe their effects on behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Reports of observations about behavior and conditions under which they occur</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand how people think and act</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Causal predictions and descriptive predictions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Internal factors and external factors</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To understand the bases of people's behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Making behavior happen or not happen</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific study of behavior and mental processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Objective observation and subjective observation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data from Instagram and data from experiments</p> Signup and view all the answers