Ch1-Intro to Psychology

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Across
  1. 1. Man's best friend
  2. 4. a branch of psychology that deals with the effects of normal and pathological physiological processes on mental life.
  3. 6. an attempt to foretell what will happen in a particular case, generally on the basis of past instances or accepted principles.
  4. 7. a method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.
  5. 8. is what we think of as pre-wiring and is influenced by genetic inheritance and other biological factors.
  6. 9. Large marsupial
  7. 10. a precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study.
  8. 12. Has a trunk
  9. 16. is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part.
  10. 18. a person who specializes in the study of mind and behavior or in the treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders
  11. 19. the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs or behavior are modified by the presence or action of others
  12. 21. Likes to chase mice
  13. 22. a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment.
  14. 23. the branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena.
Down
  1. 1. help psychologists to distinguish between typical and atypical behaviors and gain more accurate understandings of human and animal behaviors and thoughts.
  2. 2. Flying mammal
  3. 3. any attempt to understand phenomena related to intelligent behavior.
  4. 4. a medical doctor (an M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders.
  5. 5. the study in psychology that focuses on mental processes, including how people perceive, think, remember, learn, solve problems, and direct their attention to one stimulus rather than another.
  6. 8. is generally taken as the influence of external factors after conception,
  7. 11. a movement in psychology supporting the belief that humans, as individuals, are unique beings and should be recognized and treated as such by psychologists and psychiatrists.
  8. 13. the scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context.
  9. 14. All mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.
  10. 15. method of treating mental disorders, shaped by psychoanalytic theory, which emphasizes unconscious mental processes
  11. 17. actions performed by an organism that can be seen and measured.
  12. 20. -the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes.