Across
- 1. a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened
- 5. getting encoded information out of memory storage
- 6. getting information into the memory system
- 8. manipulation of mental representations to draw inferences and conclusions.
- 10. responsible for assessing threat/ damage to the this results in abnormality to process fear
- 11. breathing briefly stops during sleep (causing the person to choke and gasp and momentarily waken)
- 12. the retaining of encoded information over time
- 13. minimum stimulation necessary for a person to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time
- 17. activation of certain associations thus predisposing one’s perception/ memory/ response
- 18. overstimulation of the senses
- 19. pair of pinhead-sized brain structures that together contain about 20000 neurons/ located in hypothalamus/ governs functions synchronized with sleep cycle (i.e body temperature/ hormone secretion/ urine production/ changes in blood pressure)
Down
- 2. the tendency to overestimate accuracy of our knowledge and judgments
- 3. influence people’s conscious emotional feelings and ability to act in planned ways based on feelings
- 4. the capacity to retain and retrieve information
- 7. a sleep disorder involving sudden and unpredictable daytime attacks of sleepiness or lapses into REM sleep
- 9. process by which the facial muscles send messages to the brain about the basic emotion being expressed
- 12. focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus to the exclusion of others/ the cocktail party effect
- 14. representation of objects or events that are not present
- 15. mental category we form to group objects, events, or situations that share common characteristics or features
- 16. a mental set that hinders the solution of a problem