Across
- 3. a cell that makes up the nervous system
- 4. A layer of fat that makes the axon work faster
- 7. study an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles
- 11. A certain point that after it is reached, the neuron will fire
- 15. the focus on the current environmental effects on a person's growth potential
- 16. An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the elemental structure of the human mind
- 17. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations
- 18. the science of behavior and mental processes
- 19. the long part of the neuron that sends the message
- 20. A neuron's bushy, branching extensions that receive messages and conduct impulses toward the cell body
Down
- 1. observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation
- 2. study of mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 5. school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral processes function and how these enable us to adapt
- 6. view that psychology is an objective science that can only observe behavior
- 8. the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it
- 9. The message that the axon sends
- 10. all the cases in a group, from which samples may be drawn for a study
- 12. neurotransmitters that control pain and pleasure
- 13. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
- 14. A neurotransmitter getting absorbed by its' neuron