Psychology Crossword
Across
- 1. Identified eight stages of human social development, believed that at each stage in life, people face a conflict of two conflicting forces
- 4. He emphasized the influence of group pressure on opinions, and also conducted many famous conformity experiments.
- 7. Created the thoery of learned helplessness
- 8. Famously challenged the validity of the psychiatric diagnosis process, and the inaccuracy of the system in identifying mental disorders
- 10. Explored the nature of eyewitness memory and false memories, conducted research on the misinformation effect
- 11. An expert on learning and memory who developed the spacing effect, where individuals remember more when information is presented few times over a long period, than many times over a short period
- 14. Conducted experiments on monkeys that highlighted the role of companionship in cognitive and social development
- 15. Conducted research on the obedience of individuals to authority figures (hint: asked to deliver electric shocks)
- 16. Developed the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, which helps people overcome behavior and emotional problems with an empirical and directive approach
- 17. Classified different types of parenting styles (authoritarian, permissive, authoritative)
- 19. Explored the idea of hypnosis in relation to pain control
- 21. Founded the humanistic approach and developed the person-centered method of helping patients deal with problems
- 22. Created an atlas of emotions and identified thousands of facial expressions
- 25. Often referred as the Father of American Psychology, he developed the idea that physiological arousal leads to the experience of related emotions
- 26. Believed in the idea of a collective unconscious, which is a common reservoir of our species' experiences
Down
- 2. Invented the operant conditioning chamber, developed the idea of schedules of reinforcements
- 3. Developed the idea of cognitive dissonance and held the belief that humans strive for cognitive harmony, and that conflict arises when a person's beliefs contradicts his/her actions
- 5. Regarded as the "father of modern linguistics", he developed the idea that learning of grammar is hard-wired into our brains
- 6. Developed the theory of different stages of moral development (Pre conventional/conventional/post conventional)
- 9. Developed the theory of multiple intelligences, in which he identifies 8 different types of intelligences that can be categorized into three larger, overarching groups
- 12. Classified human intelligence into experiential, practical and componential in his triarchic theory of learning
- 13. Developed the idea of heuristics and biases that influence decision making
- 17. Developed the social learning theory and the idea of self-efficacy (Bobo doll experiment)
- 18. Developed one of the first intelligence tests, which he used to identify children with learning disabilities
- 19. Believed that childhood anxiety and social tensions triggered our desire for love and security
- 20. Developed the concept of taste aversion learning, where an individual learns to avoid food by associating its taste with its negative symptoms
- 23. Conducted research on temperament and emotions. He defined inhibited and uninhibited temperament as stable behavioral/emotional responses.
- 24. Considered the father of cognitive theory, he discovered the relationship between positive/negative thoughts and an individual's behavioral and emotional health