Across
- 2. Memory also know as short-term.
- 4. Also called phi phenomenon.
- 6. Assemblies that are groups of interconnected neurons whose activation allows information or stimuli to be recognized and held briefly and temporarily in short-term memory.
- 9. Area of psychology that examines moral, social, emotional, and cognitive development throughout a person's entire life.
- 10. Memory that is stored in almost unlimited amounts.
- 12. The study of the most basic elements, primarily sensations and perceptions, that make up our conscious mental esxperience.
- 13. A mental process that automatically hides emotionally threatening or anxiety producting information.
- 14. As we make associations among bits of information, we create links among thousands of nodes.
- 15. Phenomenon refering to having a strong feeling that a particular word can be recalled.
- 18. Approach that analyzes how organisms learn new behaviors or modify existing ones depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish.
- 19. The tendency to always put off completing a task to the point of feeling anxious or uncomfortable about one's delay.
- 21. A focus or perspective that may use a particular research method or technique.
- 22. Approach focusing on how we process, store, and use information and how this information influences what we attend to, perceive, learn, remember, believe, and feel.
- 23. The study of the function rather than the structure of consciousness.
- 24. Memories that are vivid recollections, usually in great detail.
Down
- 1. Combing separate items of information into a larger unit.
- 3. Involves simply repeating or rehearsing the information rather than forming any new associations.
- 5. A method of exploring conscious mental processes by asking subjects to look inward and report their sensations and perceptions.
- 7. Memory that is an initial process that receives and holds environmental information in its raw form.
- 8. Refers to changes in the structure and function of neurons after they have been repeatedly stimulated.
- 11. An active system that allows people to retain information over time.
- 16. The process of making mental representations of information so that it can be placed into our memories.
- 17. Memory files that contain related information organized around a specific topic or category.
- 19. Focuses on the measurement of people's abilities, skills, intelligence, personality, and abnormal behaviors.
- 20. May be temporary or permanent, loss of memory.