Intro to Psych - Midterm Exam

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Across
  1. 2. The process of adapting to stimuli that do not change
  2. 3. The process of intentionally trying to remember something
  3. 5. A sudden understanding about what is required to solve a problem
  4. 6. The modification through experience of preexisting behavior and understanding
  5. 7. The process by which people generate and evaluate arguments and reach conclusions about them
  6. 8. Mental representations of categories of objects, events, and people
  7. 11. The process through which people take raw sensations from the environment and interpret them, using knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world, so that the sensations become meaningful experiences
  8. 13. People can sometimes divide their attention in ways that allow them to do more than one thing at a time.
  9. 16. The science of behavior and mental processes
  10. 17. A psychological dimension of sound determined by the amplitude of a sound wave
  11. 18. A set of rules for combining the words used in a given language
  12. 19. The absence of pain sensations in the presence of a normally painful stimulus,
  13. 20. The ability to detect a stimulus
  14. 21. Translating the physical properties of a stimulus into a pattern of nerve cell activity that specifically identifies those properties.
  15. 24. The increasing ability to see in the dark as time in the dark increases
  16. 26. Rules governing the meaning of words and sentences,
  17. 28. A repetitive fluctuation in the pressure of a medium, such as air
  18. 29. The process of directing and focusing psychological resources to enhance perception, performance, and mental experience
  19. 31. A description of forgetting as the gradual disappearance of information from memory
  20. 32. Symbols and a set of rules for combining them that provides a vehicle for communication
Down
  1. 1. Methods for placing information in an organized context in order to remember it
  2. 2. The essential “color,” determined by the dominant wavelength of light
  3. 4. The unintentional influence of prior experiences
  4. 9. Awareness of external stimuli and one’s own mental activity
  5. 10. Chemicals released by one animal and detected by another that shape the second animal’s behavior or physiology
  6. 12. The manipulation of mental representations
  7. 14. Messages from the senses that make up the raw information that affects many kinds of behavior and mental processes,
  8. 15. The purity of a color
  9. 22. The accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious beliefs, occupational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and environment
  10. 23. How high or low a tone sounds
  11. 25. The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an overt response to it
  12. 27. The set of rules that govern the formation of phrases and sentences in a language
  13. 30. Organizing individual stimuli so that they will be perceived as larger units of meaningful information