Across
- 4. a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of people, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of them
- 7. the perspective of psychological science that deals with how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
- 8. drugs (such as alcohol, barbiturates, and opiates) that reduce neural activity and slow body functions
- 11. the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next
- 12. an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes and predicts observations
- 13. the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we learn observable responses
- 14. an inert substance or condition that may be administered instead of a presumed active agent, such as a drug, to see if it triggers the effects believed to characterize the active agent
Down
- 1. our awareness of ourselves and our environments
- 2. ("mind-manifesting") drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory input
- 3. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
- 5. a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders, practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical (for example, drug) treatments as well as psychological therapy
- 6. the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
- 9. the science of behavior and mental processes
- 10. drugs (such as caffeine, nicotine, and the more powerful amphetamines and cocaine) that excite neural activity and speed up body functions