Across
- 3. The neural impulse that occurs when a stream of positively charged ions enters the axon
- 4. A tangible reward that motivates people to do something
- 7. Research that can be used in the real world to improve human life/better how people function
- 12. Also known as motor neurons, they are responsible for carrying information from the central nervous system out to the muscles, glands and organs that will act on the information
- 13. A hint that allows one to remember something
- 14. Piaget’s 3rd stage of cognitive development during which 7-11 year olds learn how to think logically about concrete things
- 15. Repeating something over and over as to remember it
- 18. A social cognitive psychologist famous for the Bobo doll experiment that coined the term reciprocal determinism which refers to the interacting influence of cognition, behavior and one’s environment
- 19. The theory that people act in ways to reduce drives
- 20. The common reservoir of images and information from Jung’s idea that all humans have a collective unconscious
- 22. Adapting schemas to incorporate new information learned from new experiences
- 23. A famous linguist that theorized that everyone is born with universal grammar, a built in predisposition to learn basic grammar rules that are similar across all languages
- 25. A psychologist famous for creating 8 social stages of development based on age ranges
- 27. Expanding the number of possible solutions and creatively finding many ways to solve a problem
- 28. Depth cues that depend on the use of 2 eyes
- 29. The “capacity of” the abbreviation of this type of memory is around 5-7 pieces of information that the brain holds temporarily
- 30. A brief resting period after a neuron fires where it cannot fire again
- 31. A psychologist that worked with French school children to determine their mental age which compared their level of performance to the average level of performance of someone that age and is now a huge part of IQ testing
- 33. An autonomic response that is created upon sensing a stimulus that anticipates another stimulus after repeated exposure to 2 stimuli that are associated together
- 35. The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and muscles of internal organs that generally work unconsciously but can be overridden by consciousness
- 38. A specific time period during which one is best suited to learn a new skill
- 39. A process that occurs when a neuron fires and positively charged ions flood into the axon and the nerve cell loses its inside-outside charge difference
- 40. Methodical, logical procedures/rules that guarantee a solution to a particular problem
- 42. The following 5 factors- conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness to new experiences, extroversion
- 44. Part of the brain responsible for speech and language
- 45. A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus
- 47. An abbreviation for a type of therapy in which patients struggling with depression are put under anesthesia and their brain is electrically stimulated
- 48. Organizing things into small, manageable units to remember them better
Down
- 1. The strange phenomenon that people are becoming more intelligent with each generation because when taking old IQ tests, the next generation tends to do significantly better than the older generation
- 2. A monocular cue of depth perception in which faraway objects tend to be hazy of slightly blurred as a result of the atmosphere
- 3. The smallest level of stimulation a neuron needs to fire
- 5. Narrowing down available solutions to determine the single, best way to solve a problem
- 6. The theory that dreams are the brain’s attempt to synthesize random neural activity
- 8. A defense mechanism in which people express their impulses to/on another person/thing
- 9. Social or cultural norms on how a certain group displays emotions
- 10. Interpreting new experiences in terms of pre-existing schemas
- 11. A binocular cue in which the eyes turn inward to view an object as closer in proximity
- 16. After time, a conditioned response fades away
- 17. The effect of a small point of light to be perceived as if it is moving when it is actually still in a dark, featureless environment
- 21. The tendency for people to seek out evidence that proves their opinion and ignore evidence that disproves their opinion
- 24. Piaget’s 4th stage of cognitive development during which young teens learn how to think and reason abstractly for the rest of their lives
- 26. The point at which a difference in sensation is noticeable
- 32. Basic human needs to be in relationships and feel part of a group with other human beings
- 34. The process in which one adjusts something to be better suited for something
- 36. The part that connects the right and left brain hemispheres
- 37. The theory that organisms cannot eliminate arousal altogether but seek to find the right level of stimulation
- 41. A neo-Freudian psychologist that thought that social tensions during childhood play an important role in personality development
- 43. According to Freud, it is a largely conscious part of personality that mediates the demands of the id and the superego acting as a reality principle
- 46. A contemporary psychologist that concluded that facial expressions for emotions are the same across different cultures