Across
- 1. the process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues
- 3. following in order or succession
- 4. an injury; wound
- 6. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
- 7. Gap any significant and persistent disparity in academic performance or educational attainment between different groups of students
- 8. the quality of being based on or in accordance with reason or logic
- 11. a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body
- 12. harmonically unresolved
- 13. ganglion of the limbic system adjoining the temporal lobe of the brain and involved in emotions of fear and aggression
- 15. Ethics Aristotle's best-known work on ethics
- 16. too great to overcome
- 20. Narrowing a developmental process during which the brain uses environmental experiences to shape perceptual abilities
- 23. relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect
- 25. of or relating to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional processes
- 27. Cortex a prefrontal cortex region in the frontal lobes of the brain which is involved in the cognitive process of decision-making
- 29. behavioral therapy a short-term, goal-oriented psychotherapy treatment that takes a hands-on, practical approach to problem-solving
Down
- 2. excessive reaction to a feeling of inferiority, guilt, or inadequacy leading to an exaggerated attempt to overcome the feeling
- 5. a severe mental disorder characterized by some of the following: emotional blunting and intellectual deterioration
- 9. inherent in the essential character of something
- 10. the state or quality of being in disagreement, as by displaying an unexpected or unacceptable difference; inconsistency
- 12. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain
- 14. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify
- 17. the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system
- 18. Flexibility mental ability to switch between thinking about two different concepts, and to think about multiple concepts simultaneously
- 19. Calm a term airline pilots refer to in describing the ability to maintain a state of relative calm during a potentially disastrous situation
- 21. Aversion refers to people's tendency to prefer avoiding losses to acquiring equivalent gains
- 22. the act of flowing in
- 24. a condition, usually in children, characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness
- 26. taking or showing extreme care about minute details
- 28. to drive back