AP Psychology Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. The creator of rational-emotive behavior therapy.
  2. 6. Cognitive psychologist famous for work on decision making and judgement. He did an experiment on pain by telling people to immerse their hand in cold water for 60 seconds.
  3. 8. Developed the theory of three intelligences: analytical, creative and practical.
  4. 10. Challenged the popular idea that all associations can be learned equally well. He did an experiment in which he exposed rats to a particular taste and then to a drug that would make them nauseous.
  5. 12. Did a lot of research on facial expressions.
  6. 13. Thought of the three parenting styles: authoritative, authoritarian and permissive.
  7. 14. Developed levels of moral thinking, including: pre-conventional, conventional and post-conventional morality.
  8. 17. Did research on misinformation effect (including misleading information into one’s memory of an event) and the reliability of eyewitness memory.
  9. 18. Believed that we are born with a built-in readiness to learn the grammar rules of language.
  10. 19. Did research about divided consciousness. Humans have multiple controls in thought and action.
  11. 21. Psychologist who pretended to have a psychiatric disorder to gain admission into psychiatric hospitals.
  12. 23. Did a lot of research on the development of infants. In one experiment, he measured infants’ distress over separation from parents.
Down
  1. 1. Psychologist who thought of the cognitive dissonance theory- the theory that we act to reduce discomfort between two conflicting thoughts.
  2. 2. He found that people who feel helpless and oppressed view control as external, which deepens their feelings of resignation (learned helplessness).
  3. 3. Did experiments to study conformity (adjusting behavior to fit a group standard).
  4. 5. Came up with the idea that human emotions and behaviors, though biologically influenced, are mostly due to conditioned responses.
  5. 7. Did a lot of research on classical conditioning, including his most famous: introducing a neutral stimulus (a tone) before an unconditioned stimulus (food).
  6. 9. Psychologist famous for the spacing effect- distributed study yields better long-term retention.
  7. 10. Came up with the idea of multiple intelligences- splitting our abilities into 8 different categories including: interpersonal, naturalist, linguistic, logical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic and intrapersonal.
  8. 11. Developed therapy for depression using a gentler version of rational-emotive behavior therapy.
  9. 15. Feminist and psychologist who famously criticized Kohlberg’s moral development theory.
  10. 16. Studied how people would respond to commands that were given to them. He did experiments on obedience.
  11. 20. Psychologist that agreed with Jung about the importance of childhood, but believed that social, and not sexual, tensions are important for personality formation.
  12. 22. Along with Lange, formed a theory of emotion that describes how emotion is our awareness of a specific bodily response to emotion-arousing stimuli.