Across
- 3. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience
- 6. a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors
- 7. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
- 8. in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
- 10. adapting our current understandings(schemas) to incorporate new information
- 12. the period of sexual maturation during which a person becomes capable of reproducing
- 13. the process by which certain animals form strong attachments during early life
- 14. decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation
- 17. in Erikson’s theory, the ability to form close, loving relationships; a primary developmental task in young adulthood
- 22. people's ideas about their own and others' mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict
- 24. the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence
- 27. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
- 28. the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
- 30. research that compares people of different ages at the same point in time
- 31. the time of natural cessation of menstruation
- 32. the culturally preferred timing of social evets such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement
- 33. all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves in answer to the question, “Who am I?”
- 34. the “we” aspect of our self-concept; the part of our answer to “Who am I?” that comes from our group memberships
- 35. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
- 36. a period from about age 18 to the mid-twenties, when may in Western cultures are no longer adolescents but have not yet achieved full independence as adults
- 37. in Piaget's theory, the stage (from birth to nearly 2 years of age) during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
Down
- 1. an optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development
- 2. the fertilized egg
- 4. acquired (not lifelong) disorders marked by cognitive deficits
- 5. the principle (which Piaget believed to be a part of concrete operational reasoning) that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
- 9. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing remembering and communicating
- 11. in Piaget's theory, the stage (from about 2 to 6 or 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic
- 15. according to Erik Erikson, a sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences with responsive caregivers
- 16. research that follows and retests the same people over time
- 18. interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas
- 19. in Vygotsky's theory, a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking
- 20. in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (from about 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
- 21. an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to their caregivers and showing distress on separation
- 23. in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
- 25. a branch of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
- 26. agents such as chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm
- 27. the fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
- 28. physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking
- 29. our sense of self; according to Erikson, the adolescent’s task is to solidify a sense of self by testing and integrating various roles