Psychology Ch. 1 Terms

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Across
  1. 1. The science of behavior and mental processes.
  2. 4. A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
  3. 8. A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and functions.
  4. 9. A type of psychologist who does research on basic psychological processes—as contrasted with applied psychologists.
  5. 10. The type of bias which occurs when the tendency to make judgments based on attitudes and feelings happen.
Down
  1. 2. The type of bias which is the tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not.
  2. 3. Erroneous assertions or practices set forth as being scientific psychology.
  3. 5. The field devoted to understanding how the brain creates thoughts, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes.
  4. 6. A type of psychologist whose primary job is teaching, typically in high schools, colleges, and universities.
  5. 7. A type of psychologist who uses the knowledge developed by experimental psychologists to solve human problems.