Across
- 1. Focusing on the meaning of a word to remember it
- 6. Tendency to ignore evidence that contradicts our ideas
- 8. IQ scores have risen over the past few decades. Calls for restandardization
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- 11. Decrease in conditioned response
- 13. For an action potential to fire down an axon, the process of __________ is necessary
- 14. Binocular cue. Eyes ______ inward when they look at something
- 18. Proposed the theory that there are 8 stages of development and the idea of basic trust
- 25. Carl Jung. Emotional images that are universal
- 27. Retinal cues that use both eyes
- 29. Theory that people are motivated to be alert physically and mentally. Motivates behaviors that fill no physiological need
- 31. Social cognitive theorist who did the Bobo Doll experiment and proposed the idea of reciprocal determinism
- 34. Operates on the reality principle. Acts as a moral conscience
- 36. Electric currents administered through the brain, causing a short seizure
- 40. Without the _______ ________ a person would have a split brain
- 41. 1 correct answer
- 42. Time after a neuron’s action potential, in which it must wait to return to its resting potential
- 43. Squirrel is a small cat with a fluffy tail
- 44. Vital time in development (birth to 2 years) for learning language and creating neural connections that provide the basis for development for a person’s entire life
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- 2. Theory of dreams that REM sleep enables neural activity to create stories and bring up random memories
- 3. Area of the brain involved in language expression
- 4. Defense mechanism in which a person shifts their impulses toward a less threatening person
- 5. Scientific study to solve problems
- 7. Type of learning where stimuli are linked and one stimuli brings out a certain conditioned response
- 9. Stage 3 of Piaget’s cognitive development stages. Children are able to think more logically
- 12. French intelligence researcher that worked to identify learning difficulties in children. He developed the first IQ tests
- 15. Anywhere from 7-9 numbers. Easier using chunking, mnemonics, or hierarchies
- 16. Minimum difference between two stimuli for detection to occur 50% of the time
- 17. Proposed linguistic determinism
- 19. Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness, Extraversion
- 20. Steps to ensure a solution. Less errors than heuristics
- 21. Last stage of Piaget’s stages of development. Thinking abstractly
- 22. Lacking of a physiological need creates an aroused state in which we become motivated to reduce the lacking. When you’re thirsty, you try to drink water
- 23. Found that there are 6 facial expressions that are universal
- 24. The process by which the lens focuses and adapts to create clear vision
- 26. Learned response to a conditioned stimulus
- 28. Changing to be better suited to an environment
- 29. Minimum energy needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time
- 30. Monocular cue. Distant objects seem affiliation need Need to be part of a group
- 32. Desire to do something to avoid punishment or gain rewards
- 33. Neo Freudian that proposed the inferiority complex and said that we have an “urge to community”
- 35. Basing the likelihood of events on their convenience in memory
- 37. Carry outgoing information. Brain to muscles/glands
- 38. Illusion that a small point of light in the dark is moving
- 39. Electrical charge that travels through an axon