New
Across
- 1. Organizing perception by separating object from background
- 3. Limited capacity temporary memory holding attended information
- 4. Principle that the whole is different from sum of parts
- 9. Systematic technique to improve memory encoding or retrieval
- 11. Failure to notice unexpected objects when focused elsewhere
- 12. Memory for general knowledge and facts
- 13. Perceiving objects as stable despite changes in sensory input
- 14. Smallest difference in stimulation that can be detected
- 15. Memory influencing behavior without conscious awareness
- 16. Theory about detecting weak stimuli amid noise
- 21. Gestalt grouping based on shared characteristics
- 24. Rehearsal linking new information to existing knowledge
- 25. Sense providing information about body position and movement
- 27. Process of getting information into the memory system
- 28. Processing beginning with raw sensory input
- 32. Maintaining information in memory over time
- 33. Minimum stimulus energy detected fifty percent of time
- 34. Trying to attend to more than one task at once
- 35. Memory for specific personal life events
- 36. Changing physical energy into neural impulses
- 37. Organizing and interpreting sensory information meaningfully
- 38. Difference threshold is a constant proportion of intensity
- 40. Unconscious activation of associations affecting perception
- 41. Minimum change between stimuli that can be noticed
Down
- 2. Ability to perceive the
- 5. Processing guided by prior knowledge and expectations
- 6. Sense of smell
- 7. Vivid detailed memory for emotionally charged events
- 8. Readiness to perceive in a particular way due to expectations
- 10. Process of getting information out of memory storage
- 13. Gestalt tendency to perceive smooth continuous patterns
- 17. Memory for facts and personal experiences that can be declared
- 18. Process of receiving stimulus energies from the environment
- 19. Gestalt filling in missing parts to create complete shapes
- 20. Memory system for active manipulation of information
- 22. Focusing conscious awareness on one stimulus
- 23. Decreased sensitivity to unchanging stimulation
- 26. Brief visual sensory memory lasting fractions of a second
- 29. Memory for skills and habits
- 30. Rehearsal repeating information to hold it briefly
- 31. Very brief storage of unprocessed sensory impressions
- 39. Brief auditory sensory memory for sounds
- 40. Gestalt grouping of nearby elements together