Infancy & Childhood Physical & Psychological Development

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Across
  1. 2. decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
  2. 3. the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.
  3. 5. the stage from 2 years to 6/7 years during which a human learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
  4. 8. beginning at age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
  5. 9. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
  6. 10. a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.
  7. 11. the fertilized egg.
  8. 15. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
  9. 16. "monster makers" chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus.
  10. 17. interpreting our new experiences n terms of our existing schema
  11. 18. people's ideas about their own and others' mental stages about their mind.
Down
  1. 1. 7 years to 11 years during which a human gain the mental operation that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
  2. 4. adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.
  3. 6. a branch of psychology that studies physical,cognitive, and social changes throughout the lifespan.
  4. 7. the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
  5. 12. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
  6. 13. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
  7. 14. the stage from birth to 2 years during which humans know the world mostly in terms of sensory and motor functions