Module 32-36

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