Across
- 1. an attempt to predict what will occur in a specific scenario, usually on the premise of past occurrences or accepted standards
- 4. a physician who specializes in the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and study of mental, behavioral, and personality disorders.
- 8. actions performed by an organism that can be seen and measured
- 9. a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
- 11. having to do with an organism’s physical needs
- 12. a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior
- 13. a theory of consciousness that seeks to analyze the elements of mental experiences, such as sensations, mental images, and feelings, and how these elements combine to form more complex experiences
- 15. the intellectual discipline that makes explicit the implicit structure of the behavioral sciences
- 16. having to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding
- 17. a psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior
- 18. the scientific, systematic study of behaviors and mental processes
- 19. a method of self-observation in which participants report on their thoughts and feelings
- 20. a general psychological approach that views mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptation to environmental challenges and opportunities
Down
- 2. The account provides meaning for an event or phenomenon.
- 3. the process by which an individual's attitudes, beliefs or behavior are modified by the presence or action of others
- 5. an assumption or prediction about behavior or an educated guess about the relationship between two variables that is tested through scientific research
- 6. a scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals
- 7. vs. Nurture long-standing debate in biology and society about the balance between two competing factors that determine fate: genetics and environment.
- 10. a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
- 14. a psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behaviors
