| A | B |
|---|
| psychology | the scientific study of human and animal behavior |
| theory | general framework for scientific study |
| research psychologist | those who study the origin, cause, or result of behaviors |
| applied psychologist | those who make use of the findings of research |
| introspection | the process of looking into yourself & describing what is there |
| eclecticism | the process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more systems |
| subjects | people or animals on whom the experiment is conducted |
| independent variable | the factor that changes (varies) in the experiment |
| dependent variable | the result of the experiment |
| experimental group | the group that is exposed to the independent variable |
| control group | the group that is not exposed to the independent variable |
| bias | "error" in the results of an experiment |
