Psychological Terms Crossword

The process by which the ciliary muscles change the thickness of the lens of the eye to permit variable focusing on near and distant objects.
Procedures used to establish and strengthen basic skills; as used in social-skills training programs, requires the client to rehearse a desirable behavior sequence mentally.
Processes that require attention; it is often difficult to carry out more than one controlled process at a time.
A personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory, or consciousness.
Sensory memory that allows auditory information to be stored for brief durations.
The therapeutic method in which a patient gives a running account of thoughts, wishes, physical sensations, and mental images as they occur.
Therapy that focuses on ways to unite mind and body to make a person whole.
The biological transmission of traits from parents to offspring
An experience of a stimulus pattern in a manner that is demonstrably incorrect but shared by others in the same perceptual environment.
Classrooms that use a technique known as jigsawing, in which each pupil is given part of the total material to master and then share with other group members.
In Freudian dream analysis, the hidden meaning of a dream.
In Freudian dream analysis, the surface content of a dream, which is assumed to mask the dream's actual meaning.
A sleep disorder characterized by an irresistible compulsion to sleep during the daytime.
The distortion of evidence because of the personal motives and expectations of the viewer.
The body's response to noxious stimuli that are intense enough to cause, or threaten to cause, tissue damage.
The process of thinking in which conclusions are drawn from a set of facts; thinking directed toward a given goal or objective.
A temporary readiness to perceive or react to a stimulus in a particular way.
An organized set of concepts that explains a phenomenon or set of phenomena.
Helmholtz's term for perception that occurs outside of conscious awareness.
In an experimental setting, a factor that varies in amount and kind.