First 50 Psych Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Focusing on the meaning of a word to remember it
  2. 6. Tendency to ignore evidence that contradicts our ideas
  3. 8. IQ scores have risen over the past few decades. Calls for restandardization
  4. 10. 123-456-7890
  5. 11. Decrease in conditioned response
  6. 13. For an action potential to fire down an axon, the process of __________ is necessary
  7. 14. Binocular cue. Eyes ______ inward when they look at something
  8. 18. Proposed the theory that there are 8 stages of development and the idea of basic trust
  9. 25. Carl Jung. Emotional images that are universal
  10. 27. Retinal cues that use both eyes
  11. 29. Theory that people are motivated to be alert physically and mentally. Motivates behaviors that fill no physiological need
  12. 31. Social cognitive theorist who did the Bobo Doll experiment and proposed the idea of reciprocal determinism
  13. 34. Operates on the reality principle. Acts as a moral conscience
  14. 36. Electric currents administered through the brain, causing a short seizure
  15. 40. Without the _______ ________ a person would have a split brain
  16. 41. 1 correct answer
  17. 42. Time after a neuron’s action potential, in which it must wait to return to its resting potential
  18. 43. Squirrel is a small cat with a fluffy tail
  19. 44. Vital time in development (birth to 2 years) for learning language and creating neural connections that provide the basis for development for a person’s entire life
Down
  1. 2. Theory of dreams that REM sleep enables neural activity to create stories and bring up random memories
  2. 3. Area of the brain involved in language expression
  3. 4. Defense mechanism in which a person shifts their impulses toward a less threatening person
  4. 5. Scientific study to solve problems
  5. 7. Type of learning where stimuli are linked and one stimuli brings out a certain conditioned response
  6. 9. Stage 3 of Piaget’s cognitive development stages. Children are able to think more logically
  7. 12. French intelligence researcher that worked to identify learning difficulties in children. He developed the first IQ tests
  8. 15. Anywhere from 7-9 numbers. Easier using chunking, mnemonics, or hierarchies
  9. 16. Minimum difference between two stimuli for detection to occur 50% of the time
  10. 17. Proposed linguistic determinism
  11. 19. Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion
  12. 20. Steps to ensure a solution. Less errors than heuristics
  13. 21. Last stage of Piaget’s stages of development. Thinking abstractly
  14. 22. Lacking of a physiological need creates an aroused state in which we become motivated to reduce the lacking. When you’re thirsty, you try to drink water
  15. 23. Found that there are 6 facial expressions that are universal
  16. 24. The process by which the lens focuses and adapts to create clear vision
  17. 26. Learned response to a conditioned stimulus
  18. 28. Changing to be better suited to an environment
  19. 29. Minimum energy needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time
  20. 30. Monocular cue. Distant objects seem affiliation need Need to be part of a group
  21. 32. Desire to do something to avoid punishment or gain rewards
  22. 33. Neo Freudian that proposed the inferiority complex and said that we have an “urge to community”
  23. 35. Basing the likelihood of events on their convenience in memory
  24. 37. Carry outgoing information. Brain to muscles/glands
  25. 38. Illusion that a small point of light in the dark is moving
  26. 39. Electrical charge that travels through an axon