Psych first 50 terms

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Across
  1. 3. time when neuron cannot be excited again
  2. 6. Triggers an action or memory in the brain
  3. 7. field of psychology that conducts research and applies it to real world scenarios
  4. 8. An automatic response to a certain stimuli
  5. 10. lowest level of stimulus humans can detect
  6. 13. visual effect in which it looks like a picture is moving (involves repeating patterns)
  7. 15. Way of memorizing information by making it important in your brain
  8. 16. Enable us to see depth
  9. 18. psychologist that believed humans had a predisposition for language
  10. 20. The idea that generations get increasingly smarter
  11. 23. The idea that humans do things to maintain an optimum level of arousal
  12. 25. what connects the two sides of the brain
  13. 27. Man who theorized the inferiority complex
  14. 29. Psychologist that stressed the importance of social learning
  15. 33. occurs in a nerve cell after threshold is reached
  16. 34. A persons self-esteem
  17. 36. new info that modifies existing knowladge
  18. 38. Reward given to people that acheive something, used in motivation
  19. 39. Psychologist that said facial expressions arent from culture
  20. 40. learning that occurs when an action is paired with a stimuli
  21. 41. Psychologist that developed a developemental theory after Freud
  22. 45. Defense mechanism where a person replaces their unacceptable actions for a more acceptable one
  23. 46. pons fires and cortex makes sense of it
  24. 47. Has two main divisions: sympathetic and parasympathetic
  25. 48. 7 items +/- 2 items
  26. 49. An example that represents a larger population of a person/thing
Down
  1. 1. objects in the distance appearing as blurry
  2. 2. 3rd stage in Piaget's theory of development
  3. 4. Consciousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, optimism, extraversion
  4. 5. starts the firing of a neuron (de/repolarization)
  5. 9. Theory that people preform easy tasks better in front of an audience
  6. 11. Therapy for depressed people that involve shocks to the brain
  7. 12. ability to adjust to new changes
  8. 14. a period in development in which a skill must be learned
  9. 17. The change in intensity needed for a human to interpret the stimuli as different
  10. 19. A cultures unwritten rules for expressing emotions
  11. 21. way of remembering information by grouping similar items
  12. 22. 4th stage of Piagets theory of development
  13. 24. association area in frontal lobe for speech
  14. 26. Humans need for belonging
  15. 28. Motor neurons responsible for travel away from the central nervous system
  16. 30. Interpreting new information as previously learned knowledge
  17. 31. One example of this is a standardized test
  18. 32. Taking new information and interpreting in based on prior knowladge
  19. 35. the way your eyes act relative to an objects position
  20. 37. A way of creative thinking, oppisite of divergent thinking
  21. 42. Psychologist that invented IQ scales
  22. 43. Slow way of solving a problem step by step
  23. 44. weakening of a conditioned response