Across
- 2. the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole
- 4. upbringing or life experience
- 5. an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.
- 9. theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
- 10. focuses on how a specific stimulus evokes a specific response
- 12. A rule-of-thumb strategy that does not guarantee the correct solution, but offers a shortcut to it
- 13. The process of converting information stored dynamically in LTM into a structural change in the brain
- 14. William James was the founder of this psychological theory
- 19. The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information, enabling us to recognize meaningful objects and events
- 20. a term used to describe a theory or way of thinking
- 21. biological factors (genetics)
- 22. form of “multiple choice.” You identify which stimuli match your stored information.
Down
- 1. the science of mental life
- 3. Wilhelm Wundt was the founder of this psychological theory
- 6. Stimuli, thoughts, or feelings that trigger or enhance remembering; reminders of an object or event.
- 7. an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
- 8. a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
- 11. are sensory receptors whose signals are interpreted by the brain as pain.
- 15. A score on an intelligence test, originally based on comparing mental age to chronological age, but later based on norms.
- 16. The process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment
- 17. a set of rules that determines which conclusions follow from particular assumptions
- 18. the process of becoming highly responsive to situations