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Across
  1. 3. modify or change environment to fit our schemas.
  2. 7. estimating the likelihood of events based on how available they are in your memory (how quickly you are able to remember them).
  3. 8. narrowing down ideas to get best possible solution
  4. 13. searching for information that supports your thought process.
  5. 14. the creative way of thinking that goes in different directions
  6. 16. when a species or organism comes better suited to their environment.
  7. 17. alfred; individual psychology
  8. 18. difference between the electric charge on the inside and the outside of the cell membrane.
  9. 19. a typical example of something.
  10. 20. Piaget's stage of development where kids start to think logically about abstract concepts.
  11. 23. norms that say how you should express yourself.
  12. 24. a depth cue in relation to eyes.
  13. 25. re modifying what we know so that we can understand new information better.
  14. 27. alfred; the practical IQ test.
  15. 30. magic number 7.
  16. 32. erik; coined phrase identity crisis.
  17. 37. the hypothesis that dreams are created by changes in neuron activity.
  18. 38. representing more distant objects
  19. 39. band that connects two hemispheres together that carries messages across.
  20. 40. a type of heuristic, most commonly mathematical.
  21. 41. stage in piagets theory where children can think logically about things (ages 7-11).
  22. 42. people are driven to perform actions in order to maintain a certain level of physiological pleasure.
  23. 43. wanting to do something because
  24. 45. the minimum amount of energy needed to detect a stimulus 50% of the time.
  25. 46. paul; pioneer in study of facial expressions.
  26. 47. the need to feel apart of the group.
Down
  1. 1. a person's behaviour is an external display of his desire to satisfy his physical deficiencies.
  2. 2. has two main systems sympathetic and parasympathetic.
  3. 4. the smallest amount by which two sensory stimuli can differ in order for an individual to perceive them as different.
  4. 5. this effect is what you see in the pictures with circles that looks like it's moving.
  5. 6. another word for motor neurons.
  6. 7. an electrical charge traveling down an axon.
  7. 9. a time where neurons can't be fired.
  8. 10. period in early life where exposure to stimuli produces normal development.
  9. 11. albert; social learning theory.
  10. 12. noam; the father of modern linguistics.
  11. 15. learning that links two or more ideas together.
  12. 18. when person shifts how they think or act from an unacceptable thing to something more acceptable.
  13. 21. this place helps control language expression.
  14. 22. a learned response to a conditioned stimulus.
  15. 26. two or more things coming together as one.
  16. 28. a memory technique that involves thinking about the meaning of the term to be remembered.
  17. 29. the increase in intelligence.
  18. 31. the part of you that is mostly conscious.
  19. 33. scientific studies aimed to solve practical problems.
  20. 34. taking away a conditioned response.
  21. 35. a form of psychiatric treatment that involves inducing seizures.
  22. 36. Openness,Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism.
  23. 44. organizing items into familiar units.