Across
- 3. nearness in time or space.
- 6. Memory for facts or general knowledge about the world that includes general personal information.
- 7. The theory that habituation and sensitization are independent of each other but operate in parallel.
- 8. A decrease in the strength or occurrence of a behavior after repeated exposure to the stimulus that produces that behavior.
- 9. A school of thought that argues that psychology should restrict itself to the study of observable behaviors and not seek to infer unobservable mental processes.
- 10. Memory for specific autobiographical events that includes information about the spatial and temporal contexts in which the event occurred.
- 11. The output extension of a neuron that is specialized for transmitting information to other neurons or to muscles.
- 13. A phenomenon in which prior exposure to a stimulus can improve the ability to recognize that stimulus later.
- 15. A process in which synaptic transmission becomes more effective as a result of recent activity that is widely believed to represent a form of synaptic plasticity that could be the neural mechanism for learning.
- 16. A philosophical school of thought that holds that the bulk of knowledge is inborn.
- 17. Extension of a neuron that is specialized to receive signals from other neurons.
- 19. The theory that memories are stored globally by the brain as a whole rather than in one particular brain area.
- 20. A neuron that fires maximally when the organism enters a particular location within an environment.
Down
- 1. The process whereby each time an old memory is recalled or reactivated it may become vulnerable to modification.
- 2. The transfer of past learning to novel events and problems.
- 4. The principle that learning involves strengthening the connections of coactive neurons
- 5. Disruption of old information by new learning.
- 12. A reduction in synaptic transmission that is a possible neural mechanism underlying habituation.
- 14. A pattern of retrograde memory loss in which recently acquired memories are more prone to disruption than older memories.
- 18. An automatic pathway from a sensory stimulus to a motor response.