AP Psych Terms

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Across
  1. 4. NS Supplies the internal organs
  2. 6. Threshold Minimum amount that something needs to change in order for someone to notice.
  3. 9. When something moves from place or position.
  4. 12. Thinking Term coined by Joy Paul Guilford.
  5. 14. Operations This stage begins at age 12.
  6. 16. When something no longer exists.
  7. 20. Invented the first IQ test
  8. 21. Needs Spencer feels the need to belong with the boys on the football team.
  9. 22. Absorbing something fully
  10. 24. Cue Excites the stimulus
  11. 26. Period Period in which a certain skill is believed to be acquired.
  12. 28. The father of modern linguistics
  13. 30. A person’s sense of self esteem.
  14. 31. Used to describe a noun
  15. 32. Reduction Theory developed by Clark Hull.
  16. 36. The eye’s lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
  17. 37. Area Part of the brain that controls speech.
  18. 39. Two or more things coming together.
  19. 41. Use this in math to solve problems
  20. 42. Reward Reward given to a person that has achieved something.
  21. 43. Theory People want to skydive in order to maintain a level of physiological arousal.
  22. 44. Neurons Also called motor neurons
Down
  1. 1. Conditioning Triggers a conditioned response
  2. 2. A change within a cell.
  3. 3. Bias New evidence confirms one's existing belief.
  4. 5. Memory technique where one groups items into categories in order to remember them better.
  5. 7. Effect The idea that generations are getting smarter.
  6. 8. synthesis theory Theory that dreams synthesize random neural activity.
  7. 10. Thinking Thought process that generates creative ideas.
  8. 11. The process of adapting
  9. 13. Rehearsal Organizing the information and creating an image in your head of the information.
  10. 15. Collusum Band of nerve fibers joining in the brain.
  11. 17. Operations Third stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
  12. 18. Response An automatic response
  13. 19. of STM 15 and 30 seconds
  14. 22. Research Solves specific issues that impact an individual or a group.
  15. 23. Threshold Can detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
  16. 25. Studied emotions and how they relate to expressions.
  17. 27. Refractory Period The period when the neuron has just fired, therefore, it cannot fire again.
  18. 29. Effect Point of light appears to move
  19. 32. Rules Social norms about how one should express their emotions.
  20. 33. Studied reciprocal determinism
  21. 34. Cues A depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes.
  22. 35. Potential A neural impulse
  23. 36. Said that social tension is important for the formation of a child's personality.
  24. 37. Five CANOE
  25. 38. Perspective Objects are distance and blue
  26. 40. Known for his theory on psychological development of human beings.
  27. 44. Medical treatment used in patients with severe depression.