Psychology- Unit 1

2. Processes of knowing, including attending, remembering, and reasoning.
5. The physical basis for the transmission of genetic information.
6. The part of the nervous system composed of the spinal and cranial nerves that connect the body's sensory receptors to the CNS and the CNS to the muscles and glands
7. The process to allow near and distant objects to be in focus.
8. The branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behavior, attitudes, perceptions, and motives.
11. Psychology aims to understand human _________.
12. the study of evolution, growth, and chemsitry.
13. The degree to which the eyes turn inward to fixate on an object.
16. The processes that organize information in the sensory image and interpret it.
17. The region of the brain that translates thoughts into speech or sign.
18. A subset of a population selected as participants in an experiment.

1. the process by which participants remove themselves from a study.
3. The part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord.
4. visually perceived images that differ from objective reality.
9. A state of awareness of internal events and of the external environment.
10. An organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon or set of phenomena.
14. In an experimental setting, a factor that varies in amount and kind.
15. Intensive observation of a particular individual or small group of individuals.