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Placebo effect?

a change in a participant’s illness or behavior that results from a belief that the treatment will have an effect, rather than the actual treatment

Functionalist?

a psychologist who studied the function (rather than the structure) of consciousness

Psychoanalyst?

a psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior

Explicit bias?

Explicit bias refers to a conscious and deliberate prejudice or preference towards a particular group, individual or idea

Hypothesis?

an assumption or prediction about behavior that is tested through scientific research

Correlation?

the measure of a relationship between two variables or sets of data

Cognitive?

having to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding

Self-fulfilling prophecy?

a situation in which a researcher’s expectations influence that person’s own behavior, and thereby influence the participant’s behavior

Scientific method?

a general approach to gathering information and answering questions so that errors and biases are minimized

Theory?

a set of assumptions used to explain phenomena and offered for scientific study

Double-blind experiment?

an experiment in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know which participants received which treatment

Behaviorist?

a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment

Implicit bias?

Implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that unconsciously affect our understanding, actions, and decisions towards individuals or groups, often without our awareness or conscious control

Psychology?

Psychology is the study of the human mind and human behavior

Variable?

any factor that is capable of change