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- 5. Withholding information or underlying intentions from another (i.e., lying or concealing a painful truth).
- 10. specific systematic steps towards an answer
- 12. plays a critical role in the bodily experience of emotion, as it is connected to other brain structures that regulate the body's autonomic functions
- 13. mental sets make learning efficient (don't have to relearn strategies)
- 16. a deep, useful understanding of the nature of a difficult problem
- 18. The tendency of paying attention to only one dimension at a time
- 20. process of absorbibg new information into existing mental/cognitive structures
- 21. Low fear including stress-tolerance, toleration of unfamiliarity and danger, high self-confidence and social assertiveness
- 22. a developmental brain disorder characterized by impaired social interaction, difficulty with theory of mind and impaired communication with restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old.
- 25. process of changing cognitive structures in response to new experiences and new information
- 26. the ability to change the attitude and opinion of other people
- 27. thinking as many solutions as possible to solve a problem
- 28. emotions associated with the ______ are fear and anger
- 29. A subjective and relative experience. A function of fulfillment of both lower and higher level goals.
- 31. Poor impulse control including problems with planning and foresight, lacking emotions and urge control, demand for immediate gratification, and poor behavioral restraints
Down
- 1. Introverted, timid, cautious, fearful
- 2. goal-directed and deliberately implemented mental operations used to aid in task performance
- 3. of anger, sadness, happiness, disgust and fear emerge between 2 1/2 and 7 months of age
- 4. mental sets may not apply to all situations and can prevent people from exploring alternative strategies in solving a problem
- 6. Executive functioning processes are activated in order to transform the insights to an external product; furthermore, feedback from others are sought in order to confirm the creative breakthrough of the idea (i.e., peer review)
- 7. one's ability to recognize and understand the emotion of another
- 8. the desired end-point or solution of the problem-solving activity
- 9. The set of legal moves
- 11. An awareness of one's own thinking and memory processes
- 14. profoundly uncomfortable emotion that can be associated with aggression
- 15. Outgoing, bold, fearless
- 16. Knowledge lies dormant or mind wandering is promoted
- 17. mental shortcuts
- 19. Inabliity to understand someone else's point of view. Children can't put themselves in another person's shoes
- 23. lacking empathy and close attachments with others, disdain of close attachments, use of cruelty to gain empowerment, exploitative tendencies, defiance of authority, and destructive excitement seeking
- 24. emerge at approximately 2 months
- 30. Tendency to believe that inanimate objects are alive