Cognitive Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. refers to the brain's ability to change and reorganize itself by forming new connections between brain cells
  2. 7. in a test of facial recognition the new and never before seen faces
  3. 8. a scale designed to measure cognitive ability in adults
  4. 9. a mathematical formula that measures a persons intelligence
  5. 11. when information you already have creates a difficulty when trying to learn new things
  6. 15. the three impairments that help to define autism; social relationships, imagination, and language or communication skills
  7. 16. the ability to understand emotions in ones self as well as other people and understand that some aspects of ourselves are different than others
  8. 17. a test where the subject is given a set of eyes and are asked to match the word which best describes the emotion shown in the image
  9. 18. the mental action or process of gaining knowledge and understanding it
  10. 19. a test that examines how well one responds to adversity and or hardships
  11. 20. a milder form of autism; a person with this will develop normally physically and mentally but be delayed in social and emotional development
Down
  1. 1. the active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting the information brought to the brain
  2. 2. a stage of processing the senses in systems; bringing info from the outside world into the mind and body
  3. 3. when information you are learning makes it hard for you to remember previously known information
  4. 4. when the independent variable reaches a point that it is no longer affecting the dependent variable and the dv has leveled out
  5. 6. one of the three disorders in the autism spectrum whos signs usually show in early childhood; may not experience emotional or social connections like other people do
  6. 10. a decline in quality, power, or vigor
  7. 12. facial expressions that last only a fraction of a second but shows a persons concealed feeling
  8. 13. similar to the eyes test, but one would have to figure out the gender of the eyes shown rather than the emotion
  9. 14. the total amount of mental effort being used in the working memory