AP Psych Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Use this in math to solve problems
  2. 4. NS Supplies the internal organs
  3. 5. Invented the first IQ test
  4. 6. Perspective Objects are distance and blue
  5. 9. Theory People want to skydive in order to maintain a level of physiological arousal.
  6. 10. Five CANOE
  7. 11. Response An automatic response
  8. 13. Threshold Minimum amount that something needs to change in order for someone to notice.
  9. 18. Rules Social norms about how one should express their emotions.
  10. 19. Two or more things coming together.
  11. 21. Needs Spencer feels the need to belong with the boys on the football team.
  12. 24. Area Part of the brain that controls speech.
  13. 26. Known for his theory on psychological development of human beings.
  14. 28. Operations This stage begins at age 12.
  15. 30. Conditioning Triggers a conditioned response
  16. 31. The father of modern linguistics
  17. 33. that dreams synthesize random neural activity.
  18. 36. Bias New evidence confirms one's existing belief.
  19. 37. Thinking Thought process that generates creative ideas.
  20. 38. Medical treatment used in patients with severe depression.
  21. 39. Memory technique where one groups items into categories in order to remember them better.
  22. 41. Cues A depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes.
  23. 42. Studied emotions and how they relate to expressions.
  24. 43. When something no longer exists.
  25. 44. The process of adapting
  26. 45. Absorbing something fully
  27. 46. Thinking Term coined by Joy Paul Guilford.
Down
  1. 1. synthesis theory
  2. 2. Refractory Period The period when the neuron has just fired, therefore, it cannot fire again.
  3. 3. of STM 15 and 30 seconds
  4. 7. Research Solves specific issues that impact an individual or a group.
  5. 8. A change within a cell.
  6. 12. Operations Third stage of Piaget's theory of cognitive development.
  7. 14. Period Period in which a certain skill is believed to be acquired.
  8. 15. Effect The idea that generations are getting smarter.
  9. 16. Neurons Also called motor neurons
  10. 17. Reduction Theory developed by Clark Hull.
  11. 20. Collusum Band of nerve fibers joining in the brain.
  12. 22. Threshold Can detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time.
  13. 23. Potential A neural impulse
  14. 25. Studied reciprocal determinism
  15. 26. Reward Reward given to a person that has achieved something.
  16. 27. Rehearsal Organizing the information and creating an image in your head of the information.
  17. 29. Used to describe a noun
  18. 32. The eye’s lens changes shape to focus near or far objects on the retina.
  19. 34. Effect Point of light appears to move
  20. 35. When something moves from place or position.
  21. 40. Cue Excites the stimulus
  22. 45. Said that social tension is important for the formation of a child's personality.
  23. 47. A person’s sense of self esteem.