AP Psych Unit 2

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Across
  1. 6. Mental representations of categories of items or ideas, based on experience
  2. 7. A sudden realization of problem's solution contrasts with strategy-based solutions
  3. 12. narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
  4. 13. involves adapting or modifying existing mental structures to accommodate new information or experiences
  5. 14. involves incorporating new information into existing knowledge or schemas
  6. 17. A cluster of knowledge about sequences of events and actions expected to occur in particular settings
  7. 18. Brain waves shown on an EEG in response to stimulation
  8. 20. General tendency to confirm what you already believe
Down
  1. 1. Expanding the number of possible problem solutions; creative thinking that expands in different directions
  2. 2. levels of concepts from most general to most specific
  3. 3. All the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  4. 4. Faulty heuristic used by basing off an estimate on a completely unrelated quantity
  5. 5. Problem-solving procedures or formulas that guarantee a correct outcome if correctly applied
  6. 8. Cognitive strategies used as shortcuts to solve complex mental tasks; they do not guarantee a correct solution
  7. 9. effortless,immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning
  8. 10. an idea or most representative example
  9. 11. After learning outcome, acting like you knew the entire time
  10. 15. inability to see a problem from a new perspective
  11. 16. the ability to produce new (novel) and valuable (useful) ideas
  12. 19. set of expectations about something