AP Psychology 7B

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Across
  1. 1. the smallest distinctive sound unit
  2. 3. a sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem; it contrasts with strategy-based solutions
  3. 7. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
  4. 8. beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
  5. 9. a mental image or best example or a category.
  6. 11. a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
  7. 12. the level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
  8. 13. an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear
  9. 16. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms
  10. 19. judging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes
  11. 22. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
  12. 23. the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  13. 24. beginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements
  14. 25. the tendency to be more confident than correct- to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments
  15. 26. Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think
  16. 31. a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders
  17. 32. the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words
  18. 33. clinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited
  19. 36. the smallest unit that carries meaning
  20. 37. the inability to see a problem form a new perspective, by employing a different mental set
  21. 38. our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
  22. 39. the post experimental explanation of a study
  23. 40. the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
Down
  1. 1. the science of behavior and mental processes
  2. 2. interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
  3. 4. an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought
  4. 5. early speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram - "go car" - using mostly nouns or verbs
  5. 6. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
  6. 9. surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
  7. 10. the set of rules by which we derive meaning from morphemes, words, and sentences in a given language; also,the study of meanings
  8. 14. the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving
  9. 15. the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma
  10. 17. the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions
  11. 18. the ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
  12. 20. estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
  13. 21. a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives
  14. 27. a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system
  15. 28. a tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past
  16. 29. the way an issue is posed
  17. 30. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence.
  18. 34. a mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, and people
  19. 35. a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others