Across
- 4. The developmental stage from 12 years of age to adulthood; reasoning abstractly
- 7. The need for someone to feel like they belong in a social group
- 8. Incorporates two subdivisions; sympathetic NS and parasympathetic NS
- 9. A period when an organism is young and is exposed to certain stimuli or experiences that produce normal development
- 10. Considered a neo-freudian who believed that childhood social, not sexual, tensions are crucial for personality formation
- 11. The appearance of an object when viewed from a distance
- 12. A developmental psychologist who focused on psychosocial development
- 13. A memory technique that connects knowledge to what we already know
- 16. IQ scores have improved over the years
- 18. The opposite of assimilation; adapting our current schemas to incorporate more information
- 19. Social psychologist who believed in the social cognitive theory
- 20. A defense mechanism in which you shift sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening person
- 25. Openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, aggreeableness, neuroticism
- 31. Seeks to gratify the id's impulses and contains our partly conscious perceptions
- 32. The neural fibers that connect the right and left hemisphere of the brain and transfer messages between them
- 36. Our need to maintain an optimal level of arousal motivates behaviors that meet no physiological need
- 37. The opposite of accomodation; interpreting our experiences in terms of our existin schemas
- 38. States that dreams are the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural activity
- 39. A learned response to a previously neural, but now conditioned stimulus
- 40. Neurons that carry information from the CNS to the muscles and glands
- 42. A tangible and visible award that is given to someone after completing a task
- 43. Scientific study that aims to solve practical problems
- 44. Expanding the number of possible problem solutions
- 45. The time in which a neuron cannot be excited to generate a second action potential
- 46. A depth cue that depends on the use of two eyes
- 47. The minimum stimulus energy needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
Down
- 1. Helps control language expression in the frontal lobe that directs muscle movements involved in speech
- 2. Psychologist who focused on facial expressions
- 3. A brief electrical charge that travels down an axon
- 5. Illusory movement of a single still object
- 6. Narrowing the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
- 11. Estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory
- 14. The process by which an organism becomes better suited to its environment
- 15. A type of learning in which we link two or more stimuli
- 17. When our eyes move more inward in order to focus on a close object
- 21. The process used to describe when a conditioned response diminishes
- 22. The stage from 7 to 11 years of age when children start thinking logically about concrete analogies and performing mathematical operations
- 23. A social group's norms about how to appropriately express emotions
- 24. A more accurate process to find a solution but more time consuming; opposite of heuristic
- 26. Organizing items into familiar, manageable units
- 27. Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten
- 28. When the cell becomes positively charged causing the next section of axons to open
- 29. A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore anything that contradicts them
- 30. A typical example of a certain person or thing
- 33. Cognitive psychologist who believed that language is a basic instinct for humans
- 34. Invested an IQ test for children in France using "mental age"
- 35. The minimum stimulus difference a person can detect half the time
- 40. A treatment for certain mental conditions that sends electric currents through the brain
- 41. The theory that a physiological need creates an aroused state that motivates an organism to satisfy the need