Cognitive Psychology

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Across
  1. 1. /the set of processes by which we recognize, organize, and make sense of the sensations we receive from environmental stimuli.
  2. 3. /a regional variety of a language distinguished by features such as vocabulary, syntax, and pronunciation.
  3. 5. /through which we make a request without doing so straight forwardly.
  4. 6. /a speech act by which a person conveys a belief that a given propositions is true.
  5. 8. /suggests that the two languages are represented somehow in separate systems of the mind.
  6. 11. /study of how people use language, including sociolinguistic and other aspects of the social context of language.
  7. 12. /similar to metaphors, except that they introduce the words like or as into the comparison.
  8. 13. /by which we seek to communicate in ways that make it easy for our listener to understand what we mean.
  9. 14. /has been one of the most widely mentioned ideas in all of the social and behavioral sciences.
  10. 15. /your statement of thanks in advance are really ways of getting someone to do what you want.
  11. 16. /when we perceive an assortment of objects, we tend to see objects that are close to each other as forming a group.
  12. 21. /juxtapose two nouns in a way that positively asserts their similarities while not disconfirming their dissimilarities
  13. 22. /used in relating to other people, such as when we try to understand another person’s behavior, motives or emotions.
  14. 28. /a commitment by the speaker to engage in some future course of action.
  15. 30. /distance from a surface, usually using your own body as a reference surface when speaking in terms of depth perception.
  16. 32. /an often studied form of vivid memory.
  17. 35. /a speech act by which the very act of making a statement brings about an intended new state of affairs.
  18. 38. /your contribution to a conversation should be truthful you are expected to say what you believe to be the case.
  19. 39. /the capacity to learn from experience, using metacognitive processes to enhance learning, and the ability to adapt to the surrounding environment.
Down
  1. 2. /refers to the view that forgetting occurs because recall of other words.
  2. 4. /a statement regarding the speakers psychological state.
  3. 7. /used in understanding patterns in nature.
  4. 9. /people who can speak only one language
  5. 10. /people sometimes remember things consequential that, in a broad context, are inconsequential.
  6. 15. /an attempt by a speaker to get a listener to do something, such as supplying the answer to a questions.
  7. 17. /which can be represented in just two dimensions and observed with just one eye.
  8. 18. /people often cannot remember where they heard what they heard, or read what they read.
  9. 19. /based on the receipt of sensory information from both eyes.
  10. 20. /theory for explaining how we forget information.
  11. 23. /occurs when our perception of an object remains the same even when our proximal sensation.
  12. 24. /suggests that the two languages are represented in just one system.
  13. 25. /refers to memory of an individual’s history.
  14. 26. /characteristic patterns across languages of various cultures and relativity.
  15. 27. /based on the notion that “the whole differs from the sum of its individual parts.
  16. 29. /make your contribution to a conversation as informative as required but no more informative than is appropriate.
  17. 31. /devise a word or expression in which each of its letters stands for a certain other word or concept.
  18. 33. /form a sentence rather than a single word to help you remember the new words.
  19. 34. /people who can speak two language
  20. 36. /people’s understanding and control of their own thinking processes.
  21. 37. /we tend to group objects on the basis of their similarity.