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Psychology is the scientific study of .
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In correlational research, the goal is to describe the strength of the between two or more events or characteristics.
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How people evaluate their lives in terms of their happiness and life satisfaction is called .
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A is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempt to explain certain observations.
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A(n) is a prediction that can be tested.
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A(n) is a carefully regulated procedure in which one or more factors believed to influence the behavior being studied are manipulated while all other factors are held constant.
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Once psychologists collect measurable data, they use procedures to understand what the data mean.
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The first step of the scientific method is to .
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If the behavior under study changes when a factor is manipulated, the experiment has demonstrated .
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Correlational research cannot establish because it does not involve manipulating factors in a controlled way.





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