Psychology Crossword

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