Across
- 1. teachers demonstrate the process of problem solving for their students and explain the steps as they go along
- 8. a behavioral test developed by Mary Ainsworth that is used to determine a child's attachment style
- 10. spectrumdisorder a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors
- 12. the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 13. in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
- 14. adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information
- 15. physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking
- 18. the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
- 20. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
- 21. the principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
- 23. in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
- 27. an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
- 28. the process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period very early in life
- 29. decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation
- 30. a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
Down
- 2. in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
- 3. a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
- 4. people's ideas about their own and others' mental states—about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict.
- 5. in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
- 6. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
- 7. attachments marked by anxiety or ambivalence
- 9. agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
- 11. according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers
- 16. in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
- 17. an optimal period shortly after birth when an organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development
- 19. attachments rooted in trust and marked by intimacy
- 22. fertilized egg
- 24. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
- 25. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
- 26. interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas