PSY Mid Term
Across
- 2. Contains the nucleus of the cells, processes nutrients and provides energy.
- 4. Sleep disorder involving uncontrollable episodes of sleeping.
- 7. The factor that researchers manipulate or change to cause an effect.
- 9. classical conditioning
- 10. Inhibition of brain activity
- 12. Trouble falling asleep or waking up too early
- 13. Tells you how strongly related two factors are to each other.
- 14. Mental process related to consciousness and awareness.
- 15. Long tube that carries the neuron's information to other cells and body areas
- 18. Efficient way to collect information on a very large group of subjects
- 19. Specialized cells that provide structural support for neurons, provide nutrition, and remove waste.
- 21. useful for studying rare conditions.
- 23. Father of psychology
- 24. stage of sleep involving increased brain activity and most dreaming.
- 25. 4 stages of sleep we cycle through several times a night
Down
- 1. Believed everyone has unconscious feelings, usually sexual and aggressive in nature, that shape our personality, motivate our behavior, and cause mental disorders at times.
- 2. Type of learning which involves pairing a neutral stimulus with an unlearned, natural stimulus repeatedly until neutral stimulus elicits the same response.
- 3. Increases like likelihood of activation.
- 5. Says that dreams represent symbolic fulfillment of unconscious wishes.
- 6. variable the factor that researchers measure to see if an effect was caused.
- 8. Learning, memory muscle contractions.
- 11. Permanent change in behavior or knowledge as a result of experience.
- 13. Mental state of being awake and aware of our thoughts, sensations, and surroundings.
- 16. The process of integrating, organizing and interpreting sensations.
- 17. Short, thick receptors that work well in bright light and provide for color vision and fine detail.
- 20. Long, thin receptors that work in dim light, but do not allow for fine detail or color vision
- 22. Founder of structuralism