Psychology OCR GCSE
Across
- 1. When memory gaps are filled unconsciously with made‑up details
- 5. The idea that memories are rebuilt using schemas rather than replayed accurately
- 6. Theory that schizophrenia is caused by excess dopamine activity
- 12. Symptoms such as apathy and lack of motivation in schizophrenia
- 14. Believing inanimate objects have feelings or intentions
- 16. Understanding an object still exists even when out of sight
- 17. Researcher who found Disney adverts changed childhood memories
- 18. False sensory experience such as hearing voices
- 22. Psychologist who studied conformity using line judgement tasks
- 23. Swiss psychologist who proposed four stages of cognitive development
- 25. Fixed irrational belief despite evidence against it
- 27. Co‑author of activation synthesis theory
- 30. Psychologist who co‑created activation synthesis theory of dreaming
- 32. Theory that dreams result from the brain making sense of random neural firing during REM sleep
- 34. Psychologist who studied obedience to authority using shocks
- 36. Psychologist who developed reconstructive memory theory
Down
- 2. Following orders from an authority figure
- 3. Psychologist who proposed fixed and growth mindsets
- 4. Psychologist who proposed the stage theory of moral development
- 7. Psychologist who proposed the criminal personality theory using PEN traits
- 8. Psychologist who studied delinquency and psychoticism in adolescents
- 9. Psychologist who developed internal/external locus of control
- 10. Researcher who found uniform increases obedience in field studies
- 11. A mental framework used to organise and interpret information
- 13. Theory that schizophrenia causes people to move down the social hierarchy
- 15. Theory that beliefs, not events, cause emotional consequences in depression
- 19. Memory researcher linked to advertising and false memories
- 20. When behaviour becomes part of a person’s character after reinforcement
- 21. Researcher who studied Facebook use, envy and depression
- 24. Psychologist who argued learning styles are a myth
- 26. Seeing the world only from one’s own viewpoint, typical in pre‑operational stage
- 28. Learning through observing someone else receiving a reward
- 29. Understanding that quantity remains the same despite appearance changes
- 31. Changing behaviour due to group pressure
- 33. Researcher who used SPECT scanning to study schizophrenia
- 35. Psychologist who proposed dream theory involving wish fulfilment