PSYC 221 Test 1 Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. A neuron that fires maximally when the organism enters a particular location within an environment.
  2. 6. A phenomenon in which prior exposure to a stimulus can improve the ability to recognize that stimulus later.
  3. 7. The transfer of past learning to novel events and problems.
  4. 9. An automatic pathway from a sensory stimulus to a motor response.
  5. 11. Disruption of old information by new learning.
  6. 13. The theory that habituation and sensitization are independent of each other but operate in parallel.
  7. 14. The process whereby each time an old memory is recalled or reactivated it may become vulnerable to modification.
  8. 15. A pattern of retrograde memory loss in which recently acquired memories are more prone to disruption than older memories.
  9. 17. Memory for facts or general knowledge about the world that includes general personal information.
  10. 18. The principle that learning involves strengthening the connections of coactive neurons
  11. 20. 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.
Down
  1. 1. A decrease in the strength or occurrence of a behavior after repeated exposure to the stimulus that produces that behavior.
  2. 2. A reduction in synaptic transmission that is a possible neural mechanism underlying habituation.
  3. 3. 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.
  4. 4. Extension of a neuron that is specialized to receive signals from other neurons.
  5. 8. The theory that memories are stored globally by the brain as a whole rather than in one particular brain area.
  6. 10. nearness in time or space.
  7. 12. Memory for specific autobiographical events that includes information about the spatial and temporal contexts in which the event occurred.
  8. 16. The output extension of a neuron that is specialized for transmitting information to other neurons or to muscles.
  9. 19. A philosophical school of thought that holds that the bulk of knowledge is inborn.