Cognition and Development

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Across
  1. 2. research does the autistic child have a 'theory of mind'?
  2. 7. (Piagetian) attributing feelings to inanimate objects
  3. 9. the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and to others
  4. 10. (Piagetian) mental transformations that occur in the mind
  5. 12. research into scaffolding
  6. 14. research mirror neurons
  7. 16. the ability to see the world through the 'eyes' of another person
  8. 17. research presenting a child with a visual situation that 'in the real world' could not physically happen
  9. 19. research the ability to conserve
  10. 20. giving support with the elements of a task that is initially beyond the learner's capacity, thus helping the child move into the zopd
  11. 21. research object performance in infants
Down
  1. 1. (Piagetian) new info or experiences cannot be fitted into the child's current understanding so either an existing schema is changed or a new schema is created
  2. 3. a type of neuron which activates when we observe others and which fires in the same way when we recreate the action of 'another' ourselves
  3. 4. this is the ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation
  4. 5. a 'false belief' which is used to find out whether young children have developed theory of mind
  5. 6. mental structures that are being added to and changed throughout life
  6. 8. (Piagetian) new info or experiences can be fitted into the child's existing schema or current understanding of the world
  7. 11. (Piagetian) understanding that the quantity of an object does not change when appearance changes
  8. 13. when a child has not developed object permanence they assume that an object no longer exists if it cannot be seen
  9. 15. the distance between independent ability level and potential ability level when problem solving in collaboration with more capable adults or peers
  10. 18. a mental disorder which becomes apparent in early childhood