Psychology Key Terms

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Across
  1. 6. Receives and sends messages throughout your body.
  2. 7. Frontal, Parietal, Temporal, Occipital
  3. 13. Hormone regulating sleep-cycle.
  4. 16. When someone likes us, we tend to like them back.
  5. 19. Controls voluntary movement.
  6. 22. Responsible for recognising fine details, colour, and identifying objects.
  7. 24. Of the body.
  8. 25. Stage of sleep with rapid eye movement.
  9. 26. Body nerves connecting all parts of the body to the CNS.
  10. 27. Transmit messages as an electrical impulse through the neuron.
  11. 28. The longing towards something; the feeling of being drawn into something.
  12. 29. Controls involuntary responses.
  13. 31. A group of relatively unchanging personal characteristics unique to an individual.
  14. 33. Helps us stay centred and safe by identifying location, movement, and layout of surroundings.
Down
  1. 1. Keeps the cell alive and functioning.
  2. 2. The stages of sleep.
  3. 3. Made of the brain and spinal cord.
  4. 4. Any action you can see.
  5. 5. Stage of sleep with non rapid eye movement.
  6. 8. Study of attraction/ allure between people
  7. 9. Travel down the axon.
  8. 10. Physical, neurological, or psychological events that occur during sleep or while transitioning between sleep and wakefulness.
  9. 11. When the brain uses prior knowledge to interpret information.
  10. 12. Our master biological clock.
  11. 14. The brain’s interpretation of what we see to make sense of the world around us.
  12. 15. The branches at the end of the axon.
  13. 17. Cross the gap between neurons.
  14. 18. Distinct functions and capabilities attributed to the hemispheres of the brain.
  15. 20. Receives information into the neuron.
  16. 21. set of psychological laws explaining how the human brain perceives patterns as unified wholes.
  17. 23. Of the mind.
  18. 30. The study of behaviour and the mind.
  19. 32. Regularly occurring altered state of consciousness associated with a loss of conscious awareness.