Psychology

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Across
  1. 1. / What organisms will do and, in the case of humans, what they will think or feel in various situations.
  2. 4. / A medical doctor who can prescribe medication or operate on patients
  3. 8. / Able to be noticed or perceived.
  4. 9. / A psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth.
  5. 11. / Having to do with an organism’s physical needs.
  6. 12. / A psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior.
  7. 13. / A psychologist who studied the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences.
  8. 15. / The first goal for any scientist or psychologist is to describe or gather information about the behavior being studied and to present what is known.
  9. 16. / Having to do with an organism’s thinking and understanding.
  10. 17. / A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior.
  11. 18. / The scientific, systematic study of behaviors and mental processes.
  12. 19. / A method of self-observation in which participants report on their thoughts and feelings.
  13. 20. / The theory that mental states can be sufficiently defined by their cause, their effect on other mental states, and their effect on behavior.
Down
  1. 2. / Why people or animals behave the way they do.
  2. 3. / To control behavior to make constructive and lasting changes in people's lives.
  3. 5. / An assumption or prediction about behavior or an educated guess about the relationship between two variables that is tested through scientific research.
  4. 6. / A scientist who studies the mind and behavior of humans and animals
  5. 7. vs. Nurture / Nature refers to the characteristics that a person inherits. Nurture refers to environmental factors, such as family, culture, education, and individual experiences.
  6. 10. / A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment.
  7. 14. / A psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behaviors.