According to social psychologists, human beings rely on _____ to help them maintain and enhance our lives through successful interaction.

_____ cognition refers to any thinking that occurs out of our awareness, quickly, and without taking much effort.

_____ is an organism’s activities in response to external or internal stimuli, including objectively observable activities, introspectively observable activities and non-conscious processes.

When studying cognition, social psychologists use the term _____ to describe variation in a factor’s ability to grab people’s attention because they are unusual, colorful, or moving.

_____ is the scientific and philosophical assertion that all knowledge of matters of fact either arises from experience or requires experience for its validation.

A television personality and politician assert that violent crime is caused by violent media. While some experimental studies have found a short-term and relatively weak connection between consuming violent media and violent behavior, observational studies have found that consuming violent media is rarely found to cause violent behavior or violent crime in non-experimental settings. In other words, researchers have not been able to consistently replicate the results of the experimental studies that find a causal link between consuming violent media and violent behavior with different people and in varied settings, indicating that those experiments lack _____ validity.

Describe the form and structure of the piece.

Who is credited with first proposing the psychosocial theory of development across eight distinct life stages?

Which research method involves following the same group of participants over an extended period of time?

1 in 7 women are treated for __________ sometime between the year before pregnancy and year after pregnancy