AP Psychology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 6. starts at four months
  2. 8. thinking knowing, remembering
  3. 10. efficient though error prone thinking strategy to solve a problem
  4. 11. awareness of things that are not visible
  5. 12. starts at age 2
  6. 14. tendency to think of things only in terms of usual functions
  7. 15. Whorf’s hypothesis
  8. 22. speaking like a telegram
  9. 25. I KNOW I AM RIGHT
  10. 27. rules for grammatically sensible sentences in a given language
  11. 30. is the skinny man reading poetry a professor or truckdriver?
  12. 31. drugs used to control anxiety and agitation
  13. 33. pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base
  14. 34. our spoken, written or signed words
  15. 35. most
  16. 36. mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
  17. 37. methodical, logical rule that guarantees solution to problem
  18. 38. the word “chat” has three
  19. 39. surgery that removes parts of the brain
  20. 40. mental grouping
Down
  1. 1. a sudden and novel realization
  2. 2. inability to see problem from new perspective
  3. 3. a person’s characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
  4. 4. between at ages 1-2
  5. 5. ability to produce novel and valuable ideas
  6. 7. you control your own fate
  7. 9. tendency to approach problem in one particular way
  8. 13. clinging to initial conceptions even if disproved
  9. 16. effortless, automatic feeling
  10. 17. a characteristic pattern of behavior
  11. 18. base of brainstem, controls heartbeat and breathing
  12. 19. a nerve cell
  13. 20. a testable prediction
  14. 21. tendency to search for info that supports your preconceptions
  15. 23. persistent, irrational fear
  16. 24. set of rules to divide meaning from morphemes, words and sentences
  17. 26. way an issue is posed
  18. 28. BEST mental example
  19. 29. likelihood of events based on availability in memory
  20. 32. system of rules that enable us to communicate with others
  21. 35. smallest unit that carries meaning
  22. 39. science of mental processes and behavior