Developmental Psychology: Prenatal Development and Newborn/Infancy and Childhood
Across
- 1. the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
- 5. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 6. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
- 7. the stage during which a child learns to ue language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
- 10. the principle that properties remain the same despite changes in forms of objects
- 15. adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
- 16. agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
- 17. the stage of cognitive development during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
- 18. decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation
- 20. people's ideas about their own and other's mental stages
Down
- 2. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
- 3. the stage of cognitive development during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
- 4. the fertilized egg
- 8. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
- 9. physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking
- 11. interpreting our new experiences in terms or our existing schemas
- 12. the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
- 13. a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
- 14. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
- 19. the stage during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities