Human Development

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Across
  1. 5. all the mental activities associated w/ thinking, knowing & remembering
  2. 10. interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas
  3. 13. adapting one’s current schemas to incorporate new info; having a new schema
  4. 15. baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek to open the mouth & search for the nipple
  5. 18. studies psychical, mental (cognitive), & social changes occurring throughout the lifespan
  6. 19. thinking about hypothetical scenarios & processing abstract thoughts
Down
  1. 1. believed that children build concepts or schemas which are mental categories
  2. 2. when you rub on bottom of baby’s foot and the toes fan out & curl back inwards
  3. 3. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior & relatively uninfluenced by experience
  4. 4. outer part of zygote; where nourishment passes
  5. 6. known for the stages of psychosocial development
  6. 7. theory that babies attach to their mothers b/c they are usually the ones that provide nourishment
  7. 8. idea of infantile amnesia
  8. 9. fertilized egg
  9. 11. representing things w/ words/images
  10. 12. causes psychical & cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman heavily drinking
  11. 14. inner part of zygote
  12. 16. harmful substances that can reach the embryo/fetus during prenatal development and cause harm Ex: chemicals
  13. 17. mental structures that an individual uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behavior