Unit 1 AP Psychology

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Across
  1. 1. Focus on the behavior of employees in the workplace.
  2. 5. Roots of behavior and mental processes with natural selection.
  3. 12. The study of behavior and mental processes using the experimental method.
  4. 14. The scientific study of all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communication.
  5. 17. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual potential for personal growth.
  6. 22. The study of how psychological processes affect and enhance teaching and learning.
  7. 24. A historical school of psychology devoted to uncovering the basic structures that make up the mind and thought.
  8. 25. The study of observable behavior and its explanation by principals of learning.
  9. 27. Differing complementary views, from biological to psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon.
  10. 29. Focus on human growth and changes across the lifespan, including physical, cognitive, social, intellectual, perceptual, personality and emotional growth.
  11. 30. The psychological specialty focuses on the physical and chemical changes that cause, and occur in response to, behavior and mental processes.
Down
  1. 2. Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior.
  2. 3. First woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology.
  3. 4. A sociological and psychological theory that deals with the importance of culture and society in developing and shaping individuals.
  4. 6. The field of psychology devoted to testing, measurement, assessment and related activities.
  5. 7. An advocate for the mentally ill by highlighting the deplorable conditions in asylums.
  6. 8. Principle that among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed to succeeding generations.
  7. 9. "Father of Psychology" 1st to study psychology in a lab; introspection and structuralism.
  8. 10. The interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language).
  9. 11. Best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.
  10. 13. The study o fan individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.
  11. 15. A branch of psychology that studies assesses and treats people with psychological disorders
  12. 16. A branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who often provide medical (for example drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy
  13. 18. A branch of psychology that assists people with problems in living (often related to school, work and marriage) and in achieving greater well-being
  14. 19. Established the first psychology laboratory at an American women's college
  15. 20. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
  16. 21. A historical school of psychology that believed mental processes could best be understood in terms of their adaptive purpose and function.
  17. 23. This perspective is based on observable behaviors and actions; unlike some of the other perspectives, this perspective does not pay attention to cognitive processes because they are not observable.
  18. 26. Longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors.
  19. 28. How we think, influence and relate to one another