Parts of the Brain

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Across
  1. 2. pair of pinhead-sized brain structures that together contain about 20000 neurons/ located in hypothalamus/ governs functions synchronized with sleep cycle (i.e body temperature/ hormone secretion/ urine production/ changes in blood pressure)
  2. 5. the tendency to overestimate accuracy of our knowledge and judgments
  3. 7. influence people’s conscious emotional feelings and ability to act in planned ways based on feelings
  4. 8. process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed
  5. 10. breathing briefly stops during sleep (causing the person to choke and gasp and momentarily waken)
  6. 13. overstimulation of the senses
  7. 15. responsible for assessing threat/ damage to the this results in abnormality to process fear
  8. 16. a sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or lapses into REM sleep
  9. 18. getting information into the memory system
  10. 20. minimum stimulation necessary for a person to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
  11. 21. a mental set that hinders the solution of a problem
Down
  1. 1. representation of objects or events that are not present
  2. 3. activation of certain associations thus predisposing one’s perception/ memory/ response
  3. 4. the retaining of encoded information over time
  4. 6. getting encoded information out of memory storage
  5. 9. a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened
  6. 11. mental category we form to group objects, events, or situations that share common characteristics or features
  7. 12. the capacity to retain and retrieve information
  8. 14. focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others/ the cocktail party effect
  9. 17. manipulation of mental representations to draw inferences and conclusions.
  10. 19. bias the tendency to look for or pay attention only to information that confirms one’s own beliefs