Across
- 3. a type of childhood rejection when other children do not want to be friends with a child because of their antagonistic, confrontational behavior
- 5. a family that consists of a father, mother, and their biological children under age 18
- 6. an ongoing and nationally representative measure of US children's achievement in reading, mathematics, and other subjects over time; nicknames the "nation's report card"
- 14. the legal and genetic relationships among relatives living in the same home
- 15. the logical principle that things can be organized into groups according to some characteristic that they have in common
- 17. the concept that things can be arranged in a logical series, such as the number sequence or the alphabet
- 19. a family of relatives in addition to the nuclear family; usually 3 or more generations living in one household
- 20. Kohlberg's third level of moral reasoning, emphasizing moral principles
- 23. the tendency to assess one's abilities, achievements, social status, and other attributes by measuring them against those of other people, especially one's peers
- 24. repeated, systematic efforts to inflict harm on other people through physical, verbal, or social attack on a weaker person
- 25. a body of knowledge in a particular area that makes it easier to master new information in that area
- 26. a type of childhood rejection when other children do not want to be friends with a child because of their timid, withdrawn, anxious behavior
- 27. a process in which repetition of a sequence of thoughts and actions makes the sequence routine so that it no longer requires conscious thought
- 28. a family consisting of one man, several wives, and their children
- 29. the way a family works to meet the needs of its members
Down
- 1. Kohlberg's first level of moral reasoning, emphasizing rewards and punishments
- 2. children in the US whose profiency in english is low, usually below a cutoff score on an oral or written test
- 4. mechanisms that combine memory, processing speed, and knowledge to regulate the analysis and flow of information within the information-processing system
- 7. Kohlberg's second level of moral reasoning, emphasizing social rules
- 8. a strategy in which school subjects are taught in both the learner's original language and the second majority language
- 9. a US approach to teaching english that gathers all of the non-english speakers together and provides intense instruction in english
- 10. someone who attacks others and who is attacked as well
- 11. a strategy in which instruction in all school subjects occurs in the second language that a child is learning
- 12. Piaget's term for the ability to reason logically about direct experiences and perceptions
- 13. the fourth of Erikson's 8 psychological crises, during which children either attempt to master many skills, developing a sense of themselves as either industrious or inferior/competent or imcompetent
- 16. the idea that each group of children has games, sayings, clothing styles, and superstitions that are not common among adults, just as every culture has distinct values, behaviors, and beliefs
- 18. a family that consists of only one parent and his/her children
- 21. the capacity to adapt well to significant adversity and to overcome serious stress
- 22. the unofficial, unstated, or implicit patterns within a school that influence what children learn