Chapter four
Across
- 2. The process of growth whereby a body matures regardless of, and relatively independent of, intervention such as exercise, experience, or environment
- 3. A form of learning in which one stimulus is repeatedly paired with another so that the second one brings forth a response.
- 6. Bandura’s theory about learning that emphasizes the cognitive processes of observational learning
- 8. A group of general principles, ideas, or proposed explanations for explaining some kind of phenomenon; in this case, child development.
- 11. The orderly set of changes in the life span that occurs as individuals move from conception to death.
- 12. A tentative theory or assumption made to draw inferences or test conclusions; an interpretation of a practical situation that is then taken as the ground for action.
- 13. The kind of psychological learning, first characterized in the behaviorist theory of Pavlov, that takes place when pairing something that rousts or incites an activity with the activity itself in a way that the stimulus (such as a bell) will trigger a response (such as salivating in anticipation of food that usually arrives after the bell is sounded).
Down
- 1. A form of learning in which an organism’s behavior is shaped by what is reinforced.
- 4. The process of learning the rules and behaviors expected when in situations with others.
- 5. A procedure, such as reward or punishment, that changes a response to a stimulus; the act of encouraging a behavior to increase in frequency.
- 7. The argument regarding human development that centers around two opposing viewpoints; nature refers to the belief that it is a person’s genetic, inherent character that determines development; nurture applies to the notion that it is the sum total of experiences and the environ-ment that determine development
- 9. Not conscious, without awareness, occurring below the level of conscious thought.
- 10. Freud’s theory of development that outlines the process by which energy is expressed through different erogenous parts of the body during different stages of development.