Description

The tendency to remember or notice information that fits one’s expectations, while forgetting or ignoring discrepancies.
Personal observation of your own thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
School of psychology that considers behaviors in terms of active adaptations.
An old term describing the inability of introspectionists to become subjectively aware of some mental processes; an early term describing the cognitive unconscious.
Any physical energy that an organism senses.
School of thought in psychology that emphasizes study of observable actions over study of the mind.
Any muscular action, glandular activity, or other identifiable aspect of behavior.
Information that is provided by participants about their own thoughts, emotions or behaviors, typically on a questionnaire or during an interview.
The part of the mind of which we are subjectively unaware and that is not open to introspection.
Data that come from watching participants and recording their behavior.
The ability to freely make choices that are not controlled by genetics, learning, or unconscious forces; the idea that human beings are capable of making choices or decisions themselves.
Data that come from participants’ physiological processes including measures of the brain and heart, muscles, and the production of hormones.
The process of fully developing personal potentials.
The idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one’s choices and actions if all such causes were known.
Defining a scientific concept by stating the specific actions or procedures used to measure it. For example, hunger might be defined as the number of hours of food deprivation.
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
The study of human strengths, virtues, and effective functioning.
A tendency for females and female- related issues to be underrepresented in research, whether
The attempt to explain behavior in terms of underlying biological principles.
Rules that define acceptable and expected behavior for members of a group.
In research, an animal whose behavior is studied to derive principles that may apply to human behavior.
A psychologist who specializes in the treatment of psychological and behavioral disturbances or who does research on such disturbances.
A mental health professional who specializes in helping people with problems that do not involve serious mental disorders.
In psychology, being able to state the causes of a behavior.
In psychology, altering conditions that influence behavior.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a crossword?

Crossword puzzles have been published in newspapers and other publications since 1873. They consist of a grid of squares where the player aims to write words both horizontally and vertically.

Next to the crossword will be a series of questions or clues, which relate to the various rows or lines of boxes in the crossword. The player reads the question or clue, and tries to find a word that answers the question in the same amount of letters as there are boxes in the related crossword row or line.

Some of the words will share letters, so will need to match up with each other. The words can vary in length and complexity, as can the clues.

Who is a crossword suitable for?

The fantastic thing about crosswords is, they are completely flexible for whatever age or reading level you need. You can use many words to create a complex crossword for adults, or just a couple of words for younger children.

Crosswords can use any word you like, big or small, so there are literally countless combinations that you can create for templates. It is easy to customise the template to the age or learning level of your students.

How do I create a crossword template?

For the easiest crossword templates, WordMint is the way to go!

Pre-made templates

For a quick and easy pre-made template, simply search through WordMint’s existing 500,000+ templates. With so many to choose from, you’re bound to find the right one for you!

Create your own from scratch

  • Log in to your account (it’s free to join!)
  • Head to ‘My Puzzles’
  • Click ‘Create New Puzzle’ and select ‘Crossword’
  • Select your layout, enter your title and your chosen clues and answers
  • That’s it! The template builder will create your crossword template for you and you can save it to your account, export as a word document or pdf and print!

How do I choose the clues for my crossword?

Once you’ve picked a theme, choose clues that match your students current difficulty level. For younger children, this may be as simple as a question of “What color is the sky?” with an answer of “blue”.

Are crosswords good for students?

Crosswords are a great exercise for students' problem solving and cognitive abilities. Not only do they need to solve a clue and think of the correct answer, but they also have to consider all of the other words in the crossword to make sure the words fit together.

Crosswords are great for building and using vocabulary.

If this is your first time using a crossword with your students, you could create a crossword FAQ template for them to give them the basic instructions.

Can I print my crossword template?

All of our templates can be exported into Microsoft Word to easily print, or you can save your work as a PDF to print for the entire class. Your puzzles get saved into your account for easy access and printing in the future, so you don’t need to worry about saving them at work or at home!

Can I create crosswords in other languages?

Crosswords are a fantastic resource for students learning a foreign language as they test their reading, comprehension and writing all at the same time. When learning a new language, this type of test using multiple different skills is great to solidify students' learning.

We have full support for crossword templates in languages such as Spanish, French and Japanese with diacritics including over 100,000 images, so you can create an entire crossword in your target language including all of the titles, and clues.