Infancy & Toddlerhood (Cognitive)

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Across
  1. 5. In Piaget's theory, a means of building schemes in which infants try to repeat a chance event caused by their own motor activity; __________ REACTION
  2. 6. in Piaget's theory, an organizing framework for making sense of experience, that changes with age and experience
  3. 11. understanding of words and messages; _______ LANGUAGE
  4. 12. type of behavior that is a sequence of actions in which schemes are deliberately coordinated to solve a problem
  5. 13. Piaget's first stage spanning the first two years of life during which infants and toddlers "think" with their eyes, ears, hands, and their sensory and motor abilities
  6. 14. in Piaget's theory, the part of adaptation in which the external world is interpreted by fitting the new information into an existing schema
Down
  1. 1. understanding that objects continue to exist when out of sight; OBJECT _____________
  2. 2. Infant's repetition of consonant-vowel combinations in long strings
  3. 3. ability to remember and copy the behavior of models who are not present; ____________ IMITATION
  4. 4. description of speech for toddlers shortened utterances that omit unimportant words
  5. 5. Pleasant vowel-like noises made by infants
  6. 7. set of rules we use to obtain meaning from
  7. 8. early vocabulary error in which young children apply a word too broadly
  8. 9. internal depiction of information that the mind can manipulate, including images and concepts; _______________ REPRESENTATIONS
  9. 10. state in which the child attends to the same object or event as the caregiver, who often labels it; ______________ATTENTION