Across
- 4. Human’s awareness of their surroundings as well as perceptions, memories, and senses
- 5. A personal depiction of a category by grouping together smaller subunits.
- 7. Parts of the brain that lights up when you witness someone doing an action. These also explain why you mimic someone else's actions or accent.
- 8. Interpreting stimuli using prior knowledge and experience
- 9. The two halves of the brain are allocated different functions
- 11. When you lose the ability to see an object but can still recognize it in a visual field or distinct features of the object
- 12. The meaning of words and sentences
- 16. Internal strategies that make remembering things easier. Often referred to as devices.
- 17. When you quietly say and pronounce words to you while you're reading. This does not need to be an audible sound.
- 19. When you ask someone to do something for you, you are giving them a:
- 20. Certain angle your eyes are positioned when looking at an object
- 24. A person's smallest unit of known information that they can determine to be true or false
- 26. Distinct part of a sound that can either be low or high
- 27. Basic knowledge a person possesses about a person, situation, or broad event
- 28. Having a distinct fear of social situations and being judged by others
- 29. Technique measuring and observing blood flow in the brain while completing a cognitive task
Down
- 1. Working on multiple things at once (i.e., homework and watching TV)
- 2. The belonging to a certain social group and wondering about your position in that group and how it could impact your ability to succeed
- 3. A syndrome characterized by the persistent form of cognitive shortcomings
- 6. General social knowledge of language use
- 8. The ability to work on a task even in the face of adversity. Think The Little Engine That Could!
- 10. Trying to locate a singular object in a crowded visual field
- 13. When you process information and store it in your memory
- 14. Inability to recognize another human's face
- 15. Ability to recognize one's own mental processes
- 18. A test to determine how quickly you can pair words that are related rather than unrelated. This can also be used to determine race preference.
- 21. When you mentally push smaller units of information together to make a large one
- 22. Mental representation of a physical place
- 23. Disorder characterized by inattention and hyperactivity
- 25. The mental repetition of a piece of information