Across
- 5. The orderly set of changes in the life span that occurs as individuals move from conception to death
- 7. A group of general principles, ideas, or proposed explanations for explaining some kind of phenomenon; here, child development!
- 9. The thinking process by which a person "makes sense" and puts into balance new information with what is already known. (Piaget)
- 10. The process of learning the rules and behaviors expected when in situations with others.
- 11. Not conscious, without awareness, occurring below the level of intentional thought.
- 12. The process of growth whereby a body matures regardless of and relative independent of specific interventions like exercise, experience, or environment
Down
- 1. Theory of development outlining the process by which energy is expressed through different erogenous parts of the body during different stages of development; inner drives of pleasure and aggression influence behavior unconsciously.
- 2. The part of behaviorist theory that describes learning through observing and imitating an example. The model observed can be real, filmed, or animated; and the child mimics in order to acquire the behavior. (Bandura)
- 3. A procedure, such as reward or punishment, that changes a response to a stimulus; the act of encouraging a behavior to increase in frequency.
- 4. Incorporating new information by adjusting the categories, or schema, of what is already known to allow the new information to fit. (Piaget)
- 6. Those psychological issues that deal with how people relate to others and the problems that arise on a social level. Identifies crises at stages through life answering "Who am I?" (Erikson).
- 8. A tentative explanation or assumption made to draw inferences or test conclusions; an interpretation of a practical situation that is then used as a basis for guiding research.