First 50 Terms

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Across
  1. 4. The developmental stage from 12 years of age to adulthood; reasoning abstractly
  2. 7. The need for someone to feel like they belong in a social group
  3. 8. Incorporates two subdivisions; sympathetic NS and parasympathetic NS
  4. 9. A period when an organism is young and is exposed to certain stimuli or experiences that produce normal development
  5. 10. Considered a neo-freudian who believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation
  6. 11. The appearance of an object when viewed from a distance
  7. 12. A developmental psychologist who focused on psychosocial development
  8. 13. A memory technique that connects knowledge to what we already know
  9. 16. IQ scores have improved over the years
  10. 18. The opposite of assimilation; adapting our current schemas to incorporate more information
  11. 19. Social psychologist who believed in the social cognitive theory
  12. 20. A defense mechanism in which you shift sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening person
  13. 25. Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, aggreeableness, neuroticism
  14. 31. Seeks to gratify the id's impulses and contains our partly conscious perceptions
  15. 32. The neural fibers that connect the right and left hemisphere of the brain and transfer messages between them
  16. 36. Our need to maintain an optimal level of arousal motivates behaviors that meet no physiological need
  17. 37. The opposite of accomodation; interpreting our experiences in terms of our existin schemas
  18. 38. States that dreams are the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural activity
  19. 39. A learned response to a previously neural, but now conditioned stimulus
  20. 40. Neurons that carry information from the CNS to the muscles and glands
  21. 42. A tangible and visible award that is given to someone after completing a task
  22. 43. Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
  23. 44. Expanding the number of possible problem solutions
  24. 45. The time in which a neuron cannot be excited to generate a second action potential
  25. 46. A depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes
  26. 47. The minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
Down
  1. 1. Helps control language expression in the frontal lobe that directs muscle movements involved in speech
  2. 2. Psychologist who focused on facial expressions
  3. 3. A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
  4. 5. Illusory movement of a single still object
  5. 6. Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
  6. 11. Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
  7. 14. The process by which an organism becomes better suited to its environment
  8. 15. A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli
  9. 17. When our eyes move more inward in order to focus on a close object
  10. 21. The process used to describe when a conditioned response diminishes
  11. 22. The stage from 7 to 11 years of age when children start thinking logically about concrete analogies and performing mathematical operations
  12. 23. A social group's norms about how to appropriately express emotions
  13. 24. A more accurate process to find a solution but more time consuming; opposite of heuristic
  14. 26. Organizing items into familiar, manageable units
  15. 27. Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten
  16. 28. When the cell becomes positively charged causing the next section of axons to open
  17. 29. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore anything that contradicts them
  18. 30. A typical example of a certain person or thing
  19. 33. Cognitive psychologist who believed that language is a basic instinct for humans
  20. 34. Invested an IQ test for children in France using "mental age"
  21. 35. The minimum stimulus difference a person can detect half the time
  22. 40. A treatment for certain mental conditions that sends electric currents through the brain
  23. 41. The theory that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need