First 50 Terms
Across
- 1. Visual information that’s used to process what is being seen
- 7. step-by-step instructions that lead to the correct answer
- 8. A change in the difference between the electric charge from both sides of the cell membrane
- 9. Opposite of divergent thinking
- 11. learning procedure where there’s a stimulus involved along with a neutral stimulus
- 13. The individual’s need to feel a sense of belonging by being part of a social group
- 16. The stage where you’re able to think abstractly
- 17. Amount that must be changed for there to be a detection in a change of stimulus
- 19. How a group or someone expresses themselves
- 22. Known for his interest in facial expressions and their universal meaning
- 29. The recovery period when another action potential cannot occur no matter the level of intensity of the stimulus
- 31. A period of time where a skill is most likely to be acquired
- 34. conducting scientific research and using it to solve real-world situations/problems
- 36. Biological needs leads to motivations and actions being pursued
- 38. Where a conditioned response begins to disappear
- 43. Thinking about the meaning behind the word to remember better
- 45. The way we perceive objects further away as blurry
- 46. The lowest level of stimulus that can be detected examples: light, sound, touch
- 47. the idea that putting information that has similarities together makes it easier to remember
- 48. Believed that human language is an innate trait
- 49. The idea that throughout generations, individuals are getting more intelligent and their intelligence scores are increasing
Down
- 2. The response that is automatic in result from a neutral stimulus
- 3. Adopting new experiences into how we experience life currently
- 4. The theory that changes in neuron activity triggers the brainstem during REM sleep
- 5. Came up with an intelligence test to measure individual’s cognitive abilities
- 6. A tangible award given by someone in the outside world which most times has monetary value
- 10. Psychologist that worked with the social learning theory
- 12. The movement of your eyes inwards in order to focus on an object
- 14. Cells that carry information from the central nervous system to other parts of the body
- 15. The ability to retrieve something through internal or external; events
- 18. Nerve fibers connected two hemispheres of the brain
- 20. Created by Sigmund Freud and it takes in both the external and internal world when making decisions
- 21. what happens when new experiences cause you to modify your schemas
- 23. Regulates involuntary functions automatically without consciousness
- 24. The development of organized thinking and it’s also the third stage of Piaget’s cognitive development
- 25. Psychologist that was extremely focused on overcoming feelings of inferiority
- 26. How long memories can be stored in short term before it’s moved to long term or forgotten
- 27. When a depolarizing current triggers a neuron to fire
- 28. The bias where you interpret evidence in favor of your hypothesis
- 30. AKA electroshock therapy
- 32. Part of brain that allows speech to exist
- 33. The slight eye movement that comes from staring at a single spot and fatiguing the eyes
- 35. Focused on the psychological development of humans
- 37. A variety of different solutions are proposed instead of one singular solution
- 39. People perform actions and make decisions in order to maintain arousal levels
- 40. 5 personality traits that allows us to understand an individual’s identity
- 41. Defense mechanism where feelings are being placed on someone or something else
- 42. basic models for human behavior which was created by Carl Jung
- 44. What occurs when you adjust to new experiences and helps us develop mentally and physically