50 Terms Psych
Across
- 2. Piaget,stage where kids think logically
- 4. first intelligence scale
- 8. last stage of cognitive development, abstract thinking
- 9. an electrical charge in neurons
- 11. thinking about the meaning of a term rather than the word itself
- 13. fitting evidence into your theory
- 15. specific method for problem solving
- 21. inferiority complex, focus on individual
- 25. the gradual weakening of a response that ends up disappearing
- 26. grouping of personality traits
- 27. he idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need
- 28. redirecting feelings to another person
- 29. ability to change mentally
- 32. part of language is innate
- 33. the minimum level of stimulation to detect 50% of the time
- 35. model of a person, behavior or personality
- 37. the social norms of groups that determine what is acceptable behavior
- 41. a study to tackle practice problems
- 42. our eyes do this when items appear closer
- 43. time where no reaction can occur
- 44. a need for involvement
- 46. visual info that enable depth perception
- 47. creating creative responses
Down
- 1. controls glands and muscles of internal
- 2. when one learns to connect/anticiptate two events
- 3. the change in the difference between the inside and outside of the cell membrane along the axon
- 4. language production- broken blank = broken speech
- 5. the bridge between both hemispheres
- 6. when random neural activity makes dreams
- 7. organizing by meaningfulness
- 10. seeking out actions for excitation
- 12. light in dark room appears to move
- 14. new information helps build schemas
- 16. new info goes to existing schemas
- 17. likelihood of an event based on memory
- 18. carries messages from inside out
- 19. minimum stimulation for a stimuli
- 20. new behaviors can be acquired by observing
- 22. the previous neutral response is now a stimulus
- 23. distanced objects seem blurry
- 24. when an organisms nervous system is most vulnerable to outside factors
- 30. when one tries to find a single answer
- 31. facial features appear to be universal
- 34. when behavior is driven by outside motives
- 36. a treatment for depression which connects electro currents to the head
- 38. brief info holding, then stored and forgotten
- 39. average IQ is going up every generation
- 40. developed the eight stages of development
- 45. the mediator between the superego and the id