Prenatal and Childhood Development

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Across
  1. 4. The emotional tie with another person shown by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
  2. 6. Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information
  3. 7. prominence The awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot hear or see them
  4. 9. Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior
  5. 11. operational stage Piaget’s theory: the stage of cognitive development (beginning around age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies about things may not have experienced
  6. 12. The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
  7. 14. A fertilized egg
  8. 15. Psychology A subfield of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
  9. 18. parenting Style of parenting marked by submitting to children’s desires, making few demands, and using little punishment
  10. 21. The biochemical units of life
  11. 23. operational stage Piaget’s theory: The stage of cognitive development (from around 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events
  12. 24. reflex A baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek, to open their mouth and search for something to suck (this reflex disappears by the baby’s first birthday)
  13. 25. A person’s characteristic emotional excitability
Down
  1. 1. period The optimal period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain experiences produces proper development
  2. 2. parenting Style of parenting marked by imposing rules and expecting obedience
  3. 3. parenting Style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive, setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rules
  4. 5. Substances that cross the placental barrier and prevent the fetus from developing normally
  5. 8. Piaget (1896-1980) Pioneer in the study of development psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children’s thought processes.
  6. 10. All mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
  7. 11. Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Physical and cognitive abnormalities that appear in children whose mothers consumed large amounts of alcohol while pregnant
  8. 13. A developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
  9. 16. stage Piaget’s theory: the stage (from about 2 to 6 to 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but cannot yet think logically
  10. 17. The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period early in life
  11. 19. A developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the end of the 8th week
  12. 20. Stage Piaget’s theory: the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age)during which infants learn about the world through their sensory impressions and motor activities
  13. 22. Piaget’s theory: the inability of the preoperational child to take another person’s point of view or to understand that symbols can represent other objects