Chapter 8 Human Development
Across
- 4. an individual's biological inheritance, especially his or her genes
- 6. a person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times
- 8. Piaget's term for the crucial accomplishment of understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they can not directly be seen, heard, or touched
- 11. the close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver
- 15. Piaget's fourth stage of cognitive development, which begins at age 11 to 15 and continues into adulthood
- 17. an individual's adjustment of his or her schema to new information
- 18. ways that infants use their caregiver, usually their mother, as a secure base from which to explore this environment
- 23. Piaget's third stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 7 to 11 years of age
- 25. behavior that is intended to benefit other people
- 26. a parenting style characterized by the placement of few limits on the child behavior
- 27. an individual's environmental and social experiences
Down
- 1. an individual's incorporation of new information into existing knowledge
- 2. an individual's behavioral style and characteristic ways of responding
- 3. the social and psychological aspects of being male or female
- 5. roles that reflect the individual's expectations for how females and males should think, act, and feel
- 7. a parenting style characterized by a lack of parental involvement in the child's life
- 9. Hyde's proposition that men and women are much more similar than they are different
- 10. a restrictive, punitive style in which the parent exhorts the child to follow the parent's directions
- 12. a research technique that involves giving an infant a choice of what object to look at
- 13. a research design in which a group of people are assessed on a psychological variable at one point in time
- 14. expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life
- 16. the transitional period from adolescence to adulthood, spanning approximately 18-25 years of age
- 19. a parenting style that encourages the child to be independent but that still places limits and controls on behavior
- 20. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 2 to 7 years of age
- 21. a period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence
- 22. Piaget's first stage of cognitive development, lasting from birth to about 2 years of age
- 24. refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout life