Across
- 2. The science that studies behavior and mental processes.
- 4. 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.
- 6. A stimulus that follows a response and increases the frequency of the response.
- 7. 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.
- 8. The philosophy and school of psychology that asserts that people are conscious, self-aware, and capable of free choice, self-fulfillment, and ethical behavior.
- 11. The school of psychology that argues the mind consists of three basic elements sensations, feelings, and images-that combine to form experience.
- 14. A college or university course, typically in a specialized field of study, that provides students with supervised practical application of previously studied theory.
- 15. 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.
- 17. The view that people are completely free and responsible for their own behavior.
- 18. A group characterized by common features such as cultural heritage, history, race, and language.
- 19. The school of psychology that emphasizes the tendency to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate separate stimuli into meaningful patterns.
- 22. 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.
- 23. The school of psychology that defines psychology as the study of observable behavior and studies relationships between stimuli and responses.
- 24. 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.
Down
- 1. Research conducted in an effort to find solutions to particular problems.
- 3. The school of psychology that emphasizes the uses or functions of the mind and behavior rather than just the elements of experience.
- 5. The view that focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in personality formation, behavior, and mental processes.
- 9. Deliberate looking into one's own cognitive processes to examine one's thoughts and feelings and to gain self-knowledge.
- 10. 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, the endocrine system, and heredity, on the one hand, and behavior and mental processes, on the other.
- 12. A formulation of relationships underlying observed events
- 13. In Gestalt psychology, the sudden reorganization of perceptions, allowing the sudden solution of a problem.
- 16. Research conducted without concern for immediate applications.
- 20. An inborn pattern of behavior that is triggered by a particular stimulus.
- 21. The culturally defined concepts of masculinity and femininity; the psychological state of being male or female.