Across
- 2. - The process that initiates, guides, and sustains goal-oriented behaviors.
- 5. - A thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something, often tied to behavior theories.
- 9. - Simple, efficient rules used to make quick decisions, often used when faced with complex problems.
- 11. - A theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings.
- 13. - Pertaining to the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and experience.
- 16. - The state of being aware of and able to think about one's surroundings and experiences.
- 19. Mechanism - Psychological strategies used by individuals to cope with reality and maintain self-image.
- 20. - A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or uncertain outcome.
- 21. - A mild mental disorder characterized by anxiety, depression, or obsessive behavior, but without psychotic symptoms.
- 23. - A measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test.
- 24. - The process of organizing and interpreting sensory information to represent and understand the environment.
- 26. - A mood disorder causing persistent feelings of sadness and loss of interest.
- 27. - The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character.
- 28. - The psychological attempt to direct one's own desires and impulses toward pleasurable instincts by excluding them from consciousness.
- 29. - The mental processes involved in gaining knowledge and understanding.
Down
- 1. - Chemicals that transmit signals from one neuron to another across synapses.
- 3. - A therapeutic method developed by Freud that focuses on unconscious motivations and conflicts.
- 4. - The ethical component of the personality, providing moral standards by which the ego operates.
- 5. - In Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the part of the mind that is the source of basic instincts and impulses.
- 6. - A psychologist known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health based on fulfilling innate human needs.
- 7. - The cognitive process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved.
- 8. - The emotional bond that forms between an infant and their primary caregiver, playing a critical role in development.
- 10. - A mental condition marked by alternating periods of elation and depression.
- 12. - The part of the personality that mediates between the conscious and unconscious and is responsible for reality-testing and a sense of personal identity.
- 14. - Treatment intended to relieve or heal a disorder, often through psychological methods.
- 15. - Mental processes such as thinking, knowing, and remembering.
- 17. - A cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information.
- 18. - The brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life.
- 22. - The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person.
- 25. - A learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment.