Across
- 3. cognition: cognitive abilities used in daily life
- 4. three dimensions in two: interpreting pictures as representing depth
- 6. mental processes used to transform sensory input into knowledge
- 10. position effect: remembering first and last items best in a list
- 12. grouping objects based on similarities
- 15. world theory: perception theory suggesting people expect rectangular structures
- 18. interpreting information gathered through the senses
- 19. foreshortening theory: perception theory explaining why vertical lines appear longer
- 20. illusions: perceptions that differ from reality
- 21. attribution error: tendency to overemphasize internal causes for others' behavior
- 23. thinking: accepting contradictions in thought
- 24. logical determinism: seeing contradictions as mutually exclusive
- 25. stratification hypothesis: gender differences linked to opportunity structures
- 26. focusing mental resources on specific stimuli
Down
- 1. dialecticism: belief that truth lies between opposing ideas
- 2. one stimulus influencing the response to another stimulus
- 5. bias: believing an event was predictable after it occurred
- 7. feelings that result from sensory receptor stimulation
- 8. attributions: explanations based on outside situations
- 9. vs holistic cognition: cultural differences in thinking styles
- 11. explanations for the causes of behavior
- 13. attributions: explanations based on personal traits
- 14. bias: attributing success internally and failures externally
- 16. orientation hypothesis: cultural differences affecting attention and thought patterns
- 17. intelligence: a group's ability to perform tasks effectively
- 22. threat: fear of confirming negative stereotypes