Across
- 2. the activity of knowing and the processes through which knowledge is acquired
- 4. a logical operation that allows a person to mentally order a set of stimuli along a quantifiable dimension such as height or weight
- 7. a cognitive structure or organized pattern of action or thought used to deal with experiences
- 8. the ability to recognize the necessary or logical relations among elements in a serial order
- 10. in Piaget's theory, the ability to reverse or negate an action by mentally performing the opposite action
- 11. the ability to focus on two or more dimensions of a problem at one time
- 12. in Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, a person's inborn tendency to adjust to the demands of the environment, consisting of the complementary processes of assimilation and accommodation
- 14. in Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, the process of modifying existing schemes to incorporate or adapt to new experiences
Down
- 1. in Piaget's theory, the tendency to focus on only one aspect of a problem when two or more aspects are relevant
- 3. the tendency to view the world from the person's own perspective and fail to recognize that others may have different points of view
- 5. in Piaget's theory, the process of seeking a state of mental stability in which our thoughts (schemes) are consistent with the information we receive from the external world
- 6. to separate the demands of a task at hand from prior beliefs and knowledge
- 9. Jerome Bruner's term for providing structure to a less skilled learner to encourage advancement
- 13. the recognition that certain properties of an object or substance do not change when its appearance is altered in some superficial way
- 15. in Piaget's cognitive developmental theory, a person's inborn tendency to combine and integrate available schemes into more coherent and complex systems or bodies of knowledge
- 16. Piaget's term for the process by which children interpret new experiences in terms of their existing schemata