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Across
  1. 4. When a non-moving object in the dark appears to move
  2. 6. When the conditioned response is weakened because the conditioned stimulus is not there
  3. 7. The just noticeable difference
  4. 8. People look for maximum levels of arousal
  5. 10. When there is motivation from external rewards
  6. 12. The area in between the two hemispheres of the brain
  7. 14. To interpret information in a way that confirm’s one’s beliefs
  8. 16. Signals that impact a person when they are present
  9. 18. Between ID and superego; deals with reality
  10. 21. A type of research used in an attempt to improve the quality of life
  11. 25. The nervous system that is in charge of regulating unconscious actions
  12. 26. Treatment for psychiatric patients
  13. 27. The need for the human eye to turn inward when objects get closer
  14. 29. Motor neurons that carry message away from the central nervous system
  15. 30. The way people act is based on biological needs
  16. 32. The specific time in development when a person is the most vulnerable
  17. 34. Altering oneself to fit the environment to increase the chances of survival
  18. 36. A process of learning in which two stimuli are paired together
  19. 39. Creating connections between what you’re learning and what you already know
  20. 44. The area in the brain that only briefly holds information
  21. 45. Themes that are stored in the collective unconscious
  22. 46. The psychologist who created individual psychology and the inferiority complex
  23. 47. A person’s need to feel loved within a group
  24. 48. The allowable ways people are allowed to show emotion
  25. 49. When someone takes out emotion on something/someone that is not the cause of the problem
  26. 50. When the sodium gates open which causes the cell to be positively charged
Down
  1. 1. Finding one correct answer to a problem
  2. 2. When people can think abstractly without needing something concrete to manipulate
  3. 3. When your preexisting schemas are changed to process new information
  4. 5. A methodical way of approaching a problem that guarantees a solution
  5. 8. Period of time after a nerve has fired and cannot fire again
  6. 9. Neo-Freudian psychologist
  7. 11. The psychologist who created the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale and Stanford-Binet IQ Test
  8. 13. threshold The smallest amount of stimulus that the human body can detect
  9. 15. Depth cues that rely on two eyes
  10. 17. The learned response to a conditioned stimulus
  11. 19. A psychologist who studied facial expressions
  12. 20. An impulse that travels down the axon when electrically charged
  13. 22. When parts of a set are broken up and grouped together
  14. 23. When the brain creates dreams to make sense of random neurons firing during sleep
  15. 24. The psychologist who argued that the study of language should be part of cognitive psychology
  16. 28. The third stage of the theory of cognitive development; the deveopment of logical thought
  17. 31. Creating several different answers to a problem
  18. 33. The farther away an object is the blurrier it appears
  19. 35. The increase in IQ scores over time
  20. 37. people can think abstractly without needing something concrete to manipulate
  21. 38. operations
  22. 40. Explaining new information in terms of preexisting schemas
  23. 41. Openness, consciousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism
  24. 42. The area in the brain that produces language
  25. 43. Social Cognitive Psychologist who conducted the Bobo doll experiments