Early Childhood Development Terms

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Across
  1. 4. participation a learner actively acquires new culturally valuable skills and capabilities through a meaningful, collaborative activity with an assisting, more experienced other.
  2. 6. pruning the loss of synapses in the brain that are unused.
  3. 7. persistent deficits in social communication and interaction across multiple contexts, as well as restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities.
  4. 8. the belief that environmental chartists can be attributed to human actions or interventions
  5. 9. altering existing schemas, or creating new ones, for a new/unknown situation
  6. 10. the tendency in young children to not be able to take the perspective of others, so children think that everyone sees, thinks, and feels just as they do.
Down
  1. 1. a common language development stage where children apply regular grammar rules to irregular words.
  2. 2. of Proximal Development a child can learn cognitive skills within a certain range
  3. 3. attributing life-like qualities to objects
  4. 5. bringing in new information and fitting it into an existing schema of something they already know