PSYC 3303 Crossword Week 4

4. one's intellectual attainments as shown by vocabulary and accumulated knowledge.
9. the young adult's process of becoming their own person by means of integrating his or her own values and beliefs with those of others.
12. hormones that cause muscles in the uterine wall to contract.
13. a condition involving progressive loss of bone tissue.
16. the first stage of ethnic identity development; similar to the diffusion or foreclosure identity statuses.
17. the onset of menstruation.
18. mental flexibility the ability to process information rapidly.

1. the absence of mentruation.
2. according to Kohlberg a period during which moral judgmwents are derived from moral principles and people look to themselves to set moral standards.
3. thinking that divides the cognitive world into opposites.
5. the process by which the body converts food energyt to heat at a lower rate when a person eats less, because of, famine or dieting.
6. the fourth stage in Piaget's cognitive developmental theory characterized by the capacity for flexible, reversible operations concerning abstract ideas and concepts.
7. an eating disorder characterized by cycles of binge eating and purging as a means of controlling weight gain.
8. the practice of people getting married to people who are similar to them.
10. the experience of warmth toward another person that arises from feelings of closeness and connectedness.
11. unblanced growth, such as the growth that occurs during the early part of adolescence and causes many adolescents to appear gawky.
14. a theoretical period of development spanning the ages of 18 to 25 in which young people in developed nations engage in extended role exploration.
15. thought processes directed at considering how we arrive at our beliefs, facts, and ideas.