Learning Task 2 Unit 1-2

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Across
  1. 1. The process of looking inward in an attempt to directly observe one's own psychological processes.
  2. 3. The idea that knowledge comes from experience, and that observation and experimentation enable scientific knowledge.
  3. 4. Natural, opiate-like neurotransmitters linked to pain control and to pleasure.
  4. 7. The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse.
  5. 11. The brain and spinal cord.
  6. 13. A neuron's often bushy, branching extensions that receive and integrate messages, conducting impulses toward the cell body.
  7. 15. A study method incorporating five steps: Survey, Question, Read, Retrieve, Review.
  8. 16. An integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological and social-cultural viewpoints
  9. 19. A neurotransmitter's reabsorption by the sending neuron.
  10. 20. A simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus, such as knee-jerks response.
  11. 21. The basic building block of the nervous system.
  12. 22. The study of how situations and cultures affect our behavior and thinking.
  13. 24. A history significant perspective that emphasized human growth potential.
Down
  1. 2. The study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection.
  2. 5. The scientific study of observable behavior,and its explanation by principles of learning.
  3. 6. The study of the relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior.
  4. 8. A neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon.
  5. 9. thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions.
  6. 10. The part of a neuron that contains the nucleus; the cell's life-support center.
  7. 12. A molecule that inhibits or blocks a neurotransmitter's action.
  8. 14. Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons; they also play a role in learning, thinking, and memory.
  9. 17. An early school of thought promoted by Wudnt and Titchener; used introspection to reveal the structure of the human mind.
  10. 18. The neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands.
  11. 23. A molecules that increases a neurotransmitter's action.