The Big Psychology Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. If someone has a lack of energy, poor concentration and low mood they may have
  2. 7. These are sharp spikes of electrical activity that help you to stay asleep during stage 2 sleep
  3. 9. According to Freud, this term indicates the true meaning of dreams
  4. 11. The chemical that builds up in our brain during the day
  5. 13. This theory is by Oswald and it states sleep helps us to repair.
  6. 15. The main exogenous zeitgeber
  7. 18. What according to Ekman and Friesen are universal?
  8. 23. According to the cognitive approach, the mind is like a...?
  9. 25. A study would have this if it was like real life and had 'mundane realism'
  10. 26. The cognitive approach states dreams are made up of...?
  11. 28. The term given to the body's 24 hour rhythms such as the sleep/wake cycle
  12. 29. Where the SCN is located in the brain
  13. 30. The hypothesis that states dreams are just random brain activity
  14. 32. When a person pretends to agree with the majority, while maintaining their own beliefs.
  15. 34. These are variables out with the experimenter's control
  16. 36. This is a statement of what the experimenter thinks is going to happen
  17. 37. This type of NVC is different all over the world and so suggests we learn them, we are not born with them.
  18. 38. This sampling method ensures that key groups are represented fairly such as 50/50 male and female
  19. 40. This is the diagnostic manual used to diagnose mental health issues
  20. 42. One drug that affects sleep
  21. 43. This is the term we use for how participants are allocated to conditions of an experiement
Down
  1. 1. This is the name for the group of people that a researcher studies
  2. 2. According to Stickgold (2009) what cognitive process is sleep essential for?
  3. 3. The sleepy hormone
  4. 4. The same participants do all conditions of an experiment
  5. 6. The type of social influence that sees people conform because they want to be correct.
  6. 8. Freud's theory of dreams
  7. 10. The type of brain waves we see during stage 3 and 4
  8. 12. One key study for the topic of sleep (researchers)
  9. 14. The variable that the experimenter manipulates
  10. 16. Also known as stage 5 sleep
  11. 17. These are flashes of emotion which can indicate whether someone is lying (used in policing)
  12. 19. This theory of NVC suggests it has been passed down through generations as a survival tool
  13. 20. One aspect of Freud's dream work where several symbols are merged together in a dream
  14. 21. one ethical consideration where you get participant's permission to take part in an experiment
  15. 22. This study by McGuffin et al (1996) was what type of study, looking into depression?
  16. 24. This type of memory is cleared out according to the cognitive approach's reorganizational theory of sleep.
  17. 27. The things we do to communicate through speech e.g. tone of voice
  18. 31. This theory suggests that people obey due to their mental state e.g. being in an autonomous state or an agentic state
  19. 33. This person carried out a very famous experiment into obedience because he was curious about the obedience of German soldiers during WW2
  20. 35. The biological approach to depression would suggest there is a lack of this neurotransmitter in a depressed person
  21. 39. Insomnia, CRSDs and sleep apnoea are all types of sleep...?
  22. 41. This person proposed the Negative Cognitive Triad of thoughts which can lead to depression