Associations to the Brain

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