AP Psychology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. persistent, irrational fear
  2. 2. pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
  3. 3. likelihood of events based on availability in memory
  4. 5. Whorf’s hypothesis
  5. 6. used to control anxiety and agitation
  6. 8. methodical, logical rule that guarantees solution to problem
  7. 11. smallest unit that carries meaning
  8. 12. the word “chat” has three
  9. 14. tendency to think of things only in terms of usual functions
  10. 15. tendency to search for info that supports your preconceptions
  11. 18. thinking knowing, remembering
  12. 20. base of brainstem, controls heartbeat and breathing
  13. 21. mental grouping
  14. 24. is the skinny man reading poetry a professor or truckdriver?
  15. 29. way an issue is posed
  16. 30. science of mental processes and behavior
  17. 31. our spoken, written or signed words
  18. 32. a nerve cell
  19. 33. starts at age 2
  20. 35. I KNOW I AM RIGHT
  21. 37. a testable prediction
  22. 39. a characteristic pattern of behavior
  23. 40. set of rules to divide meaning from morphemes, words and sentences
Down
  1. 1. BEST mental example
  2. 2. starts at four months
  3. 4. you control your own fate
  4. 7. system of rules that enable us to communicate with others
  5. 9. awareness of things that are not visible
  6. 10. effortless, automatic feeling
  7. 13. a sudden and novel realization
  8. 16. mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
  9. 17. most
  10. 19. clinging to initial conceptions even if disproved
  11. 22. between at ages 1-2
  12. 23. a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
  13. 25. surgery that removes parts of the brain
  14. 26. speaking like a telegram
  15. 27. rules for grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
  16. 28. ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
  17. 34. tendency to approach problem in one particular way
  18. 36. inability to see problem from new perspective
  19. 38. efficient though error prone thinking strategy to solve a problem