Unit 5 AP Psych Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Extent to which a test measures what it's supposed to
  2. 7. A group of people from a given time period
  3. 9. The way an issue is posed can significantly affect decisions & judgements
  4. 10. The smallest distinctive sound unit
  5. 12. Impairment of language usually caused by left hemisphere damage to Broca or Wernicke's area
  6. 14. Attributing the wrong source to an event we experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined
  7. 15. Smallest unit that carries meaning; word or part of word
  8. 18. Condition in which a person has a specific exceptional skill while limited in mental ability
  9. 20. Defining uniform testing procedures & meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested group
  10. 21. Clear memory of an emotionally significant memory or event
  11. 22. Passion & Perserverance in the pursuit of long-term goals
  12. 23. Early speech where child speaks like a telegram using mostly nouns & verbs
  13. 25. Tendency to be more confident than correct-overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs & judgements
Down
  1. 1. Expands the number of possible problem solutions
  2. 2. Inability to retrieve info prior to an event
  3. 3. Our ability to reason speedily & abstractly; tends to decrease with age
  4. 5. Disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new info
  5. 6. Short sensory memory of the visual stimuli
  6. 8. A mental shortcut to solve problems efficiently; usually prone to errors
  7. 11. Self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype
  8. 13. processing Encoding semantically based on the meaning of the words
  9. 16. Proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes
  10. 17. At 4 months, infant utters various spontaneous sounds
  11. 19. determinism Whorf's hypothesis that language determines
  12. 24. Tendency to approach a problem in one particular way, often a way that has been successful