Across
- 6. the tendency to be more confident than correct—to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments.
- 10. narrows the available problem solutions to determine the single best solution
- 11. a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others
- 12. that eerie sense that "I've experienced this before."
- 14. explicit memory of facts and general knowledge
- 15. a mental image or best example of a category
- 16. an area of the frontal lobe, usually in the left hemisphere, that directs the muscle movements involved in speech.
- 18. a neural center located in the limbic system; helps process explicit memories for storage
- 19. beginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household language
- 21. the activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perception, memory, or response
- 22. the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
- 23. a process in which previously stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again
- 24. in language, the smallest distinctive sound unit
Down
- 1. smallest unit of language that has meaning
- 2. our spoken, written, or signed words and the ways we combine them to communicate meaning
- 3. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 4. an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought, as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning
- 5. the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set
- 7. an increase in a cell's firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation
- 8. a sudden realization of a problem's solution
- 9. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently
- 13. an inability to form new memories
- 17. the way an issue is posed
- 20. a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem.
