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| pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base |
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| scientific study that tackles practical problems |
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| a branch of psychology that studies people with psychological disorders |
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| medicine that deals with psychological disorders. gives psychological drugs and therapy to those who need it |
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| does not accept conclusions, but examines them for himself |
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| magician. he tested and debunked a variety of "psychic" phenomena |
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| a statement of the procedures to define research variables. used to create results that can be replicated |
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| an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth to reveal universal principles |
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| a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a sample of them |
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| observing in a natural setting without any manipulation |
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| a statistical measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other |
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| a procedure in which both the researcher and the participant know not of whether or not the patient received a placebo |
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| after taking a placebo, patients will feel at ease, and that itself is enough to ease symptoms |
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| the enduring behaviors, ideas, and attitudes of a large group of people, transmitted from one generation to the next |
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| the perception of a relationship where none exists |
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| the condition of an experiment that exposes the participants to the treatment, that is, to one version of the independent variable |
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| participants of an experiment are NOT given treatment of the experiment |
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| randomly sticking participants in experimental or control group |
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