Unit Assessment Theory

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person’s environment.

Assigning traits and behaviors based on a person’s biology.

Ideas about how people process information, think, and learn.

Means of increasing knowledge by observing, formulating a hypothesis, testing the hypothesis, and formulating a theory.

Theory based on the belief that a person’s developmental stage should be based on what can be observed or seen in his or her behavior rather than making assumptions about what cannot be directly observed

Prediction about something that can be tested.

Behaviors associated with emotional responses.

Behaviors that continue when reinforced.

Comprehensive explanations about why people act and behave the way they do and how they change over time.

Method of data collection used to only observe existing groups and record observations.

Theory consisting of eight stages in which people must successfully resolve a psychological and/or social conflict before moving to the next stage in life.

Method of data collection used to keep all the variables that affect behavior the same except for one.

The study of genes

Things people do and say or the way they act.

Ideas that analyze the symbolic meaning behind behaviors.