Preform psychotherapy and some research, may work in a private practice, mental health clinic, or hospitals.

An association between increases in one variable and increases in another, or between decreases in the other.(the more you study the better your grade will be)

A variable that an experimenter manipulates.

Statistics that organize and summarize research data.

specialize in areas of basic or applied research like human development, education, cognition, and social psychology.

An association between increases in one variable and decrease another. (rather than staying home to study you go out with friends instead)

A variable that an experimenter measures, predicting that it will be affected by manipulation of the independent variable.

statistical procedures that allow researchers to draw inferences about how statistically reliable a study's results are.

Do research or serve as consultants in issues as sports, public policy, and opinion polls.

ask question and be willing to wonder, define your terms, examine the evidence, analyze assumptions and biases, avoid emotional reasoning, don't over simplify, consider other interpretations, tolerate uncertainty

The practice of putting participants into conditions at random so as to increase the likelihood that the different conditions are equivalent to begin with.

A statistical measure that provides, with a specified probability, a range of values within which a population mean is likely to lie.

The study of psychological issues intended to have direct practical significance or application.

The notion that a scientific theory must make predictions that are specific enough to expose the theory to the possibility of disconfirmation.

a comparison condition in which participants are not exposed to the treatment used in the experimental conditions.

Statistical tests that asses how likely it is that a study's results occurred merely by chance.

The study of psychological issues for the sake of knowledge rather than with a particular application in mind.

A study that looks for a consistent relationship between two or more phenomena.

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena, specifying relationships among events or variables that can be empirically tested.

A standardized way of describing the strength of the independent variable's influence on the dependent variable.