Across
- 2. Any environmental change that activates sensory receptors
- 4. Reduced sensitivity after constant stimulation
- 5. A reaction to a stimulus
- 9. Decreased response to a repeated stimulus
- 10. The minimum level needed to detect a stimulus
- 12. A relatively lasting change in behavior or knowledge due to experience
- 14. The body’s response to perceived challenges or threats
- 16. A tendency to perceive stimuli in a particular way
- 17. A learned tendency to evaluate things positively or negatively
- 19. A subjective state involving feelings, thoughts, and physiological responses
- 20. The process of focusing awareness on specific stimuli
- 21. A learning process based on associations
- 22. Anything that decreases the likelihood of a behavior
- 24. The ability to store and retrieve information over time
Down
- 1. The forces that drive behavior toward goals
- 3. Mental processes involved in thinking and understanding
- 6. An individual’s characteristic patterns of thinking and behaving
- 7. Any observable action of an organism
- 8. Anything that increases the likelihood of a behavior
- 11. The process of detecting physical energy from the environment through the senses
- 13. The body’s tendency to maintain internal balance
- 15. The smallest detectable difference between two stimuli
- 18. The small gap where neurons communicate with each other
- 22. The brain’s interpretation and organization of sensory information
- 23. The basic building block of the nervous system
