Across
- 2. orderly, integrated set of statements that describes, explains, and predicts behavior
- 4. newer fields of study that investigate the relationships between changes in the brain and behavior or social development; developmental _______________________
- 9. theorist best known for his psychosocial theory, which built upon Freud's ideas
- 10. perspective that views the human mind as a symbol-manipulating system through which information flows; _____________ processing
- 11. development that is a process of gradually augmenting the same types of skills that were there already there
- 14. development as open to change in response to influential experiences
- 15. ability to adapt effectively in the face of threats to development
- 16. approach concerned with the adaptive, or survival, value of behavior and its evolutionary history
Down
- 1. theoriest best known for his ecological systems theory
- 3. regards directly observable events—stimuli and responses—as the appropriate focus of study
- 5. qualitative changes in thinking, feeling, and behaving that characterize specific periods of development
- 6. theorist best known for his sociocultural theory of development
- 7. unique combinations of personal and environmental circumstances that can result in different paths of development
- 8. beginning age period for the field of child development
- 12. theorist best known for his cognitive-developmental theory
- 13. environmental factors that cause influences on development