Across
- 2. the idea that people forget everything that happened to them before age 2
- 3. psychologist that focused his work on the similarities in language acquisition; the evolutionary universals, not the differences
- 5. Chomsky's term for a hypothesized mental structure that enables humans to learn language
- 7. realization that objects still exist when they can no longer be seen, touched, or heard
- 10. sudden increase in an infant's vocab, especially in the number of nouns
- 11. all of the methods that languages use to communicate meaning
- 12. single word that is used to express a complete, meaningful thought
- 13. the first type of reaction feedback loops involving the infant's own body
- 14. the third type of reaction that describes the cognitive processes of the 1-year-old
- 15. term for toddlers' insatiable curiosity & active experimentation as they engage in various actions to understand their world
Down
- 1. term for the way infants think during the first period of cognitive development
- 4. infant's repetition of certain syllables that begins when babies are between 6-9 months
- 6. the second type of reaction feedback loops involving the infant & an object or another person
- 8. toddlers remember what they have seen & repeat it later themselves
- 9. average number of words in a typical sentence