First 50 terms crossword
Across
- 1. Predicting the outcome of an event based on memory
- 3. Process where learner fits a new idea into what they already know
- 8. An individual’s ability to adjust to changes and new experiences.
- 9. zwe seeks an optimum level of arousal or excitement
- 11. Largely unconscious. Consists of sympathetic and parasympathetic ns.
- 13. The closer the object, the more inward our eyes need to turn.
- 16. Thinking that searches for multiple possible answers to a question
- 17. Principle that people and animals can learn to associate neutral stimuli with stimuli that produces reflexive involuntary responses and will learn to respond similarly to the new stimulus as they did to the old one.
- 19. Tendency of objects that are far away to look hazy or blurred
- 21. A tangible and visible reward
- 25. A neo-Freudian theorist who believed in the basics of Freud’s psychosexual stages theory, but adapted it to fit his own observations.
- 26. Take information from the brain to the rest of the body
- 27. Prototype. Typical way of thinking of a person/thing.
- 32. Research that has clear, practical application
- 36. Change in a cell resulting in less of a negative charge
- 37. In the frontal lobe and is responsible for controlling the muscles involved in producing speech
- 38. Follows the reality principle . Negotiates between the id and superego.
- 43. Between 15-30 seconds, 7 terms
- 44. The process of unlearning a behavior
- 45. The smallest amount of change needed in a stimulus before one detects a change
- 46. Had a theory that suggested that people feel a sense of inferiority
- 47. Grouping items into no more than seven groups to help with short term memory
Down
- 1. The period when the neuron cannot fire again
- 2. Defense mechanism where person shifts feelings towards a less threatening target
- 4. Stage in Piaget's theory. The stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
- 5. A depth cue, such as retinal disparity that depends on the use of two eyes
- 6. callosum: The nerve bundle that connects the two hemispheres of the cerebral cortex
- 7. Incorporating new information into an existing schema
- 9. When enough neurotransmitters are received to fire
- 10. The response caused by training a neutral stimulus
- 12. People’s tendency to look for evidence that confirms their beliefs and ignore evidence that contradict what they think is true.
- 14. An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development
- 15. The theory that our behavior is motivated by biological needs
- 18. A culture’s informal norms on how to express emotions
- 20. Theory that states that dreams are created by changes in neural activity
- 22. An increase in intelligence test scores over time
- 23. of the first intelligence test
- 24. When something still appears to move
- 28. When learning new things connecting them to things you already know
- 29. Thinking pointed toward one solution
- 30. Came up with the theory that there are universal facial expressions
- 31. The need to build relationships and feel part of a group
- 33. Stage in Piaget's theory. The stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that allow them to think logically about concrete events,
- 34. Electric firing message in a neuron
- 35. A rule that guarantees the right solution by using a formula or some other foolproof method
- 39. THe five broad personality traits
- 40. Came up with the theory of language acquisition
- 41. Psychiatric treatment that involves electric stimulation
- 42. Came up with social learning theory