Psychology Exam Preparation

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Across
  1. 1. Predicting School Achievement
  2. 2. The mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision- making group overrides a realistic appraisal of alternatives
  3. 4. is a state of hopelessness and lethargy lasting several weeks or months
  4. 7. Adjusting one’s behaviour or thinking to coincide with a group standard
  5. 11. unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions
  6. 12. Ability to learn from experience , solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situation
  7. 14. Following the orders
  8. 16. influence by 3 factors:Proximity,Physical attractiveness and Similarity
  9. 19. Promoted the widespread use of intelligence testing
  10. 21. experience a persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
  11. 22. associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
  12. 24. Disturbed Perceptions and Beliefs
  13. 27. An unselfish concern for the welfare of others
  14. 30. Group discussions with like-minded others strengthen members’ prevailing beliefs and attitudes
  15. 31. An unjustifiable attitude towards a group and its members
  16. 32. alternating times of depression and mania
  17. 33. occurring in group situations that foster: arousal and anonymity
  18. 34. Teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
  19. 35. Jumpy anxiety, social withdrawal etc caused by the traumatic experience
  20. 36. Method for assessing an individual’s mental aptitudes and comparing them with those of others using numerical scores
Down
  1. 1. Test designed to reflect what a person has learned
  2. 3. Conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction
  3. 5. created the most widely used individual intelligence test
  4. 6. Test designed to predict a person’s future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
  5. 8. change the brain’s chemistry with drugs
  6. 9. Presuming Hereditary Genius
  7. 10. distressing, persistent anxiety
  8. 13. is the Tendency to explain someone else’s behaviour, by using Situational or personality factors
  9. 15. way your actions match your age
  10. 17. Gold Standard of Intelligence testing.
  11. 18. Treats people in the context of their family system
  12. 20. Applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours
  13. 23. people in a group to exert less effort when pooling their efforts toward attaining a common goal than when individually accountable
  14. 25. Feelings are influenced by our beliefs
  15. 26. Conscious Thoughts Are More important than the unconscious and focusing on the present is more important than the past
  16. 28. Emphasizes the power of childhood experiences to mold the adult
  17. 29. An expectation that we should return help, not harm, to those who have helped us
  18. 30. Difficulty concentrating with tension