Across
- 2. The process of adapting to stimuli that do not change
- 3. The process of intentionally trying to remember something
- 5. A sudden understanding about what is required to solve a problem
- 6. The modification through experience of preexisting behavior and understanding
- 7. The process by which people generate and evaluate arguments and reach conclusions about them
- 8. Mental representations of categories of objects, events, and people
- 11. The process through which people take raw sensations from the environment and interpret them, using knowledge, experience, and understanding of the world, so that the sensations become meaningful experiences
- 13. People can sometimes divide their attention in ways that allow them to do more than one thing at a time.
- 16. The science of behavior and mental processes
- 17. A psychological dimension of sound determined by the amplitude of a sound wave
- 18. A set of rules for combining the words used in a given language
- 19. The absence of pain sensations in the presence of a normally painful stimulus,
- 20. The ability to detect a stimulus
- 21. Translating the physical properties of a stimulus into a pattern of nerve cell activity that specifically identifies those properties.
- 24. The increasing ability to see in the dark as time in the dark increases
- 26. Rules governing the meaning of words and sentences,
- 28. A repetitive fluctuation in the pressure of a medium, such as air
- 29. The process of directing and focusing psychological resources to enhance perception, performance, and mental experience
- 31. A description of forgetting as the gradual disappearance of information from memory
- 32. Symbols and a set of rules for combining them that provides a vehicle for communication
Down
- 1. Methods for placing information in an organized context in order to remember it
- 2. The essential “color,” determined by the dominant wavelength of light
- 4. The unintentional influence of prior experiences
- 9. Awareness of external stimuli and one’s own mental activity
- 10. Chemicals released by one animal and detected by another that shape the second animal’s behavior or physiology
- 12. The manipulation of mental representations
- 14. Messages from the senses that make up the raw information that affects many kinds of behavior and mental processes,
- 15. The purity of a color
- 22. The accumulation of values, rules of behavior, forms of expression, religious beliefs, occupational choices, and the like for a group of people who share a common language and environment
- 23. How high or low a tone sounds
- 25. The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an overt response to it
- 27. The set of rules that govern the formation of phrases and sentences in a language
- 30. Organizing individual stimuli so that they will be perceived as larger units of meaningful information