Across
- 1. The school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind and behavior rather than just the elements of experience.
- 7. The view that our behavior and mental processes have been shaped, at least in part, by natural selection as our ancestors strived to meet our prehistoric and historic challenges.
- 8. Asserts that people are conscious, self aware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfilment, and ethical behavior.
- 10. A cognitively oriented learning theory in which observational learning and person variables such as values and expectancies play major roles in individual differences; includes cognitive factors in the explanation and prediction of behavior; formerly termed social-learning theory.
- 11. The study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.
- 13. The school of psychology that argues the mind consists of three basic elements--sensations, feelings, and images--that combine to form experience.
- 15. A college or university course, typically in a specialized field of study, that provides students with supervised practical application of previously studied theory.
- 16. Research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems.
- 18. Emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns.
- 19. The view that people are completely free and responsible for their own behavior.
- 21. Freud's method of exploring human personality; the school of psychology that asserts that much of our behavior and mental processes are governed by unconscious ideas and impulses that have their origins in childhood conflicts.
- 22. A group characterized by common features such as cultural heritage, history, race and language.
- 23. The psychological state of being male or female
- 24. A formulation of relationships underlying observed events.
Down
- 2. The approach to psychology that focuses on the nature of consciousness and on mental processes such as sensation and perception; memory; problem solving; decision making, judgment; language and intelligence.
- 3. Sudden reorganization of perceptions, allowing the sudden solution of a problem.
- 4. The view that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior, and mental processes.
- 5. The approach to psychology that seeks to understand the nature of the links between biological processes and structures such as the functioning of the brain; endocrine system; and heredity; on the one hand; and behavior and mental processes; on the other.
- 6. Research conducted without concern for immediate applications.
- 9. Deliberate looking into one's own cognitive processes to examine one's thoughts and feelings and to gain self knowledge.
- 12. The science that studies behavior and mental processes.
- 14. A stimulus that follows a response and increase the frequency of the response.
- 17. Mental activity involved in understanding; processing and communicating information; the use of mental processes to perceive and mentally represent the world; think; and engage in problem solving and decision making.
- 20. An inborn pattern of behavior that is triggered by particular stimulus.