The main difference between modern psychology and earlier attempts to understand the mind and behavior is psychology's use of ________________

FIll in the blank with correct word.


Answer: the scientific method.
Rationale: Psychologists, like earlier philosophers, are interested in why people think and behave the way they do. The main difference between the two is that psychologists apply scientific methods to find answers.

Psychology

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a. belief in a just world b. implicit personality theory c. false-consensus effect d. priming

Psychology

Define achievement motivation, and list at least three home environment factors thought to foster high achievement motivation in children

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

According to transactional analysis, each person possesses a(n) __________ ego state

a. child b. parent c. adult d. all of the above

Psychology

________ is associated with the "Fearless Peer" experiment that demonstrated ________.

A. Albert Bandura; observational learning B. Edward Thorndike; latent learning C. Ivan Pavlov; classical conditioning D. B. F. Skinner; operant conditioning

Psychology