Cognitive Constructs: Piecing Together Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

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Across
  1. 3. The ability to use one object to stand in for another, known as ________, that emerges during the preoperational stage
  2. 6. The term for understanding that some things that have been changed can return to their original state which emerges in the concrete operational stage
  3. 8. The process of creating new schemes or adjusting old ones to fit new experiences
  4. 11. According to Piaget, the ability to understand that objects continue to exist even when we cannot see them develops during the sensorimotor stage, and is called ________
  5. 12. Swiss psychologist responsible for one of the best-known theories of cognitive development
  6. 13. The error made by children who will still search for an object in a previous hiding spot even though they’ve seen it moved to another hiding spot
  7. 15. The term for when children repeat others’ behaviours a while after they originally occurred
  8. 17. In the concrete operational stage, children are now able to focus on many aspects of a situation or object. This process is called ________
  9. 18. When new experiences fit neatly into current schemes
  10. 19. Term for a notable weakness of the preoperational stage, when children have a tendency to only see their world from their own perspective
  11. 20. A state of cognitive discomfort
Down
  1. 1. A type of theory (like Piaget’s) that emphasizes children as active learners who build on their own understanding with subsequent experiences is known as a ________ theory
  2. 2. The development of a better understanding that eliminates cognitive discomfort and replaces it with a state of ________
  3. 4. A child’s tendency to focus on only one aspect of a situation or object is called ________
  4. 5. An organized way of making sense of experiences that changes with time is known as a ________
  5. 7. The number of stages in Piaget’s theory of cognitive development
  6. 9. The idea that changing an object’s appearance doesn’t change its other characteristics
  7. 10. In the formal operational stage, children now have the capacity to think about thinking, also known as ________
  8. 14. The process of building schemes through direct interaction with the environment
  9. 16. A way to describe that Piaget’s theory occurs in distinct stages. This type of development is not continuous, it is ________