Chapter 8 Human Development

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Across
  1. 2. Sectional Design / a research design in which a group of people are assessed on a psychological variable at one point in time
  2. 6. / refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout life
  3. 7. / expert knowledge about the practical aspects of life
  4. 9. Permanence / Piaget's term for the crucial accomplishment of understanding that objects and events continue to exist even when they can not directly be seen, heard, or touched
  5. 10. / an individual's incorporation of new information into existing knowledge
  6. 13. Parenting / a restrictive, punitive style in which the parent exhorts the child to follow the parent's directions
  7. 14. Attachment / the close emotional bond between an infant and its caregiver
  8. 18. Stage / Piaget's second stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 2 to 7 years of age
  9. 19. / an individual's biological inheritance, especially his or her genes
  10. 20. Behavior / behavior that is intended to benefit other people
  11. 22. Parenting / a parenting style characterized by a lack of parental involvement in the child's life
  12. 23. Adulthood / the transitional period from adolescence to adulthood, spanning approximately 18-25 years of age
  13. 24. Attachment / ways that infants use their caregiver, usually their mother, as a secure base from which to explore this environment
  14. 25. / a period of rapid skeletal and sexual maturation that occurs mainly in early adolescence
Down
  1. 1. Looking / a research technique that involves giving an infant a choice of what object to look at
  2. 3. / an individual's behavioral style and characteristic ways of responding
  3. 4. Parenting / a parenting style characterized by the placement of few limits on the child behavior
  4. 5. Stage / Piaget's first stage of cognitive development, lasting from birth to about 2 years of age
  5. 8. Operational Stage / Piaget's third stage of cognitive development, lasting from about 7 to 11 years of age
  6. 11. Parenting / a parenting style that encourages the child to be independent but that still places limits and controls on behavior
  7. 12. Operational Stage / Piaget's fourth stage of cognitive development, which begins at age 11 to 15 and continues into adulthood
  8. 15. / an individual's adjustment of his or her schema to new information
  9. 16. / a person's ability to recover from or adapt to difficult times
  10. 17. Similarities Hypothesis / Hyde's proposition that men and women are much more similar than they are different
  11. 21. / an individual's environmental and social experiences