Across
- 3. the ability to recognize that moving or rearranging things doesn't change the amount of the thing
- 10. when children can perform a task with help but not on their own
- 13. a type of play that helps children reflect changes in their thoughts and learn through experimentation
- 18. when children easily learn new words (from 200 to over 10,000 words) by making connections between new words and known concepts
- 19. a type of preschool education with defined learning areas, a consistent daily routine, and plan-do-review sequences
- 20. when children over-apply the rules of grammar, assuming all words follow the same rules
- 25. memories for facts and knowledge, not tied to a timeline
- 29. self-regulatory processes that enable adaptive responses to new situations or to reach a goal
- 31. when children focus on only one characteristic of an object and ignore the others
- 34. the ability to think about other people's thoughts, helps us understand others and their reactions
- 35. a type of preschool education that gives children time to "work" (play) and focuses on individual learning and mixed-aged grouping
Down
- 1. inner speech, your thoughts
- 2. divided attention, the ability to switch focus between tasks and outside distractions
- 4. the ability to focus on a single task while ignoring distractions
- 5. a type of preschool education that includes learning centers, hands-on experience, education through questioning, and blocks
- 6. our personal narrative, the ability to remember things that have happened to us
- 7. a type of preschool education that focuses on the whole child, features connections to nature, sensory learning, and imagination, and keeps groupings of people for several years
- 8. theorists who provide new interpretations of Piaget's theory, combining it with information processing concepts
- 9. the first stage of the memory system, in which the brain stores sensory input for a very short time, only long enough to register and process it
- 11. talking to yourself to solve problems or clarify thoughts
- 12. free preschool for all children
- 14. permanent memory, divided between declarative memories that we consciously recollect and non-declarative memories of automated skills
- 15. a type of preschool education in which teachers and children co-construct curriculum and children's learning is documented through multiple methods
- 16. a range of neuro-developmental disorders characterized by social deficits and communication difficulties, repetitive behaviors and interests, sensory issues, and cognitive delays
- 17. the tendency of children to create theories that explain everything they encounter, shows we are inclined to find reasons and explanations
- 21. a type of preschool education that focuses on children's play and self-selected activities, divides the environment into learning areas, and uses project-based curriculum
- 22. a tendency to think that if two events occurred at the same time, once cause the other
- 23. the ability to stay on task for long periods of time
- 24. short-term memory, part of memory in which current conscious mental activity occurs
- 26. the most widely used therapy to help autism, which includes intensive and sustained special education and behavior therapy to help children acquire self care, social and job skills
- 27. memories tied to specific events in time
- 28. Piaget's stage of cognitive development that coincides with early childhood, involves learning to use language and think of the word symbolically
- 30. believing that objects have lifelike qualities
- 32. the tendency of young children to think that everyone sees things in the same way as the child
- 33. free preschool education that has mixed results in its effectiveness