| A | B |
| Hard Science | Those that have data that can be reproduced consistantly....control over variables |
| Soft Science | Those that do not have consistant concrete data to be studied....too many variables |
| Basic Psychology | Collecting data to atttempt to explain behavior |
| Applied Psychology | Using what we know to make things better |
| Physiological | Dealing with the physical processes of the body |
| Cognitive | Dealing with the workings of the mind |
| Hypothesis | An educated guess in order to explain a certain behavior or occurrence. |
| Scientific Method | way scientists know that data they collect is credible. order of operations for experiments |
| Ethics | System of rules used to collect credible data in psychological testing |
| Theory | idea backed up by experimentation to explain a phenomenon. |
| Chaos | The environmental event that humans hate most. |