Human Development: A Lifespan (Ch. 1)

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Across
  1. 1. a way to identify families and households based on their shared levels of education, income, and occupation.
  2. 3. people born at the same time who tend to be alike in ways that set them apart from people born at other times
  3. 7. Interdisciplinary field devoted to understanding change and constancy throughout the lifespan. Synonymous with human development. ______________ SCIENCE
  4. 9. Period where puberty occurs and young people begin to establish autonomy from the family and to define personal values and goals. 11-18 years.
  5. 11. Three areas of development: physical, cognitive, and social and emotional.
  6. 14. The belief that our own culture is superior.
  7. 15. Gradually adding more of the same skills that were already present. ______________ DEVELOPMENT
  8. 16. A change in the quality, or nature, of a skill; discontinuous change.
Down
  1. 2. Theorist who built upon Freud's ideas, creating a lifespan theory of psychosocial development.
  2. 4. An orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior.
  3. 5. The theoretical perspective that considers directly observable events-stimuli and responses-as the appropriate focus of study.
  4. 6. Area of changes in intellectual abilities, including attention, memory, academic and everyday knowledge, problem solving, imagination, and language.
  5. 8. The idea that development is open to change in response to influential experiences.
  6. 10. First age period where the new organism develops from a singe cell to trillions of cells. Conception-birth.
  7. 12. events are strongly tied to a specific stage of development, and therefore are fairly predictable as to when they occur; ______-graded influence
  8. 13. Inborn biological givens.