thick band of neural fibers connecting the brain’s two hemispheres

relationship between two or more variables; when two variables are correlated, one variable changes as the other does

number from -1 to +1, indicating the strength and direction of the relationship between variables, and usually represented by r

area of psychology that focuses on improving emotional, social, vocational, and other aspects of the lives of psychologically healthy individuals

ability to produce new products, ideas, or inventing a new, novel solution to a problem

ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities

time during fetal growth when specific parts or organs develop

compares multiple segments of a population at a single time

characterized by acquired knowledge and the ability to retrieve it

one of the culturally specific standards that govern the types and frequencies of emotions that are acceptable

ability with which people can understand and relate to those in another culture

all of the beliefs, customs, art, and traditions of a particular society

when an experiment involved deception, participants are told complete and truthful information about the experiment at its conclusion

purposely misleading experiment participants in order to maintain the integrity of the experiment

type of long-term memory of facts and events we personally experience