Stages of Cognitive Development

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Across
  1. 1. system for understanding a situation or way of knowing
  2. 5. name of stage for children from age 6 to 12
  3. 6. the understanding that objects can change shape without changes to their characteristics
  4. 10. unable to see another point of view
  5. 11. a cognitive psychologist
  6. 13. derive facts from generalizations
  7. 14. name of stage for children from birth to age 2
  8. 17. name of stage for children from age 12 through life
  9. 19. is considered inaccurate logic
  10. 20. fitting new information into existing ways of knowing
Down
  1. 2. new scheme for new information
  2. 3. logic that draws conclusions from a number of specific facts
  3. 4. one trait children typically classify objects by
  4. 7. thought that human beings created everything
  5. 8. this stage (first, second, third, or fourth) includes children who can classify by number of characteristics and objects into larger object classes
  6. 9. this stage (first, second, third, or fourth) includes children who can only classify by one characteristic, which is color
  7. 11. name of stage for children from age 2 to 6
  8. 12. thought that all objects have life
  9. 15. child experiences this type of anxiety when they are separated from a parent
  10. 16. this stage (first, second, third, or fourth) encompasses children who can think abstractly and can hypothesize
  11. 18. addition and subtraction is an example of