Psychology 2013 Crosswords

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Across
  1. 1. Generation of many different solution to a problem.
  2. 2. When infants understand that objects exist even when out of sight.
  3. 4. The prejudicial and/or distinguishing treatment of an individual based on their actual or perceived membership in a certain group or category
  4. 6. Type of parents who are firm, punitive, and unsympathetic.
  5. 9. A process in which responses are learned on the basis of their rewarding or punishing consequences.
  6. 11. A fiber that carries signals away from the cell body.
  7. 16. A technique used in psychoanalysis (and also in psychodynamic theory) which was originally devised by Sigmund Freud out of the hypnotic method
  8. 19. Type of parents who reasons with their children and are firm but understanding.
  9. 20. Two variables moving in opposite directions.
  10. 22. Two variables increasing or decreasing together.
  11. 26. Fibers that receive signals from the axons of the other neurons.
  12. 28. A chemical that transfer messages across synapses.
  13. 29. A phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another.
  14. 30. Theory of consisting of openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.
  15. 31. The reinforcement of responses that come successively closer to some desired response.
  16. 32. Awareness, based on retrieval cues.
  17. 33. Adjusting one’s behavior because of a direct request.
  18. 35. The degree to which tests scores are interpreted appropriately and used properly.
Down
  1. 1. The factor affected by the independent variable.
  2. 3. Another name for Normal Distribution or Gaussian Distribution.
  3. 5. In experiments, researchers manipulate the ______ variable.
  4. 7. Stimuli that strengthen a response if they follow that response.
  5. 8. A sample selection that does not offer equal chances of being chosen.
  6. 10. A presentation of an aversive stimulus or the removal of a pleasant one following some behavior.
  7. 12. Changing one’s behavior or beliefs to match those of others, generally as a result of real or imagined group pressure.
  8. 13. The ability to apply the rules of logics and what one knows to narrow down the possible solution to a problem.
  9. 14. A phenomenon in which the chances that someone will help in an emergency decrease as the number of people present increase.
  10. 15. A positive or negative attitude toward people in certain groups.
  11. 17. A mental disorder that consist of a pattern of severely disturbed thinking emotion, perception, and behavior that seriously impairs the ability to communicate and daily functioning skills.
  12. 18. An approach of personality that view human behavior as motivated mainly by an innate drive toward growth to achieve self-actualization.
  13. 21. The process of retrieving information stored in memory.
  14. 23. The tiny gap between the axon of one neuron and the dendrites of another.
  15. 24. Degree to which tests results can be reproduced.
  16. 25. The process of modifying schemas as an infant tries out familiar schemas on objects that do not fit them.
  17. 27. Type of parents who give their children complete freedom and lax discipline.
  18. 32. The process of finding information stored in memory.
  19. 33. Organizing individual stimuli into larger units of information.
  20. 34. A sample where every member of the population to be studied would have an equal chance of being chosen.