Across
- 5. Memory that is aided or impeded by a person's internal state.
- 8. A sleep disorder in which people briefly but repeatedly stop breathing during the night.
- 9. Photoreceptors in the retina that help us to distinguish colors.
- 11. The process of acquiring information and entering it into memory.
- 13. Stimuli that strengthen a response if they follow that response.
- 16. A theory of color vision stating that color-sensitive visual elements are grouped into red-green, blue-yellow, and black-white elements
- 18. The smallest detectable difference in stimulus energy
- 20. Stimuli that are perceived as one unit or as a meaningful grouping of information.
Down
- 1. Learning how to perform new behaviors by watching others
- 2. The science of behavior and mental processes
- 3. A loss of memory for any event that occurs after a brain injury
- 4. A loss of memory for events prior to a brain injury.
- 6. A structure in the forebrain associated with the formation of new memories.
- 7. Memory of an event that happened while one was present.
- 10. The tiny gap between neurons across which they communicate
- 12. A characteristic of memory in which recall of the first two or three items in a list is particularly good.
- 14. The process of recalling information stored in memory
- 15. Psychoactive drug that inhibits the functioning of the central nervous system.
- 17. A characteristic of memory in which recall is particularly good for the last few items in a list.
- 19. The process of maintaining information in memory over time
