Across
- 2. research does the autistic child have a 'theory of mind'?
- 7. (Piagetian) attributing feelings to inanimate objects
- 9. the ability to attribute mental states to oneself and to others
- 10. (Piagetian) mental transformations that occur in the mind
- 12. research into scaffolding
- 14. research mirror neurons
- 16. the ability to see the world through the 'eyes' of another person
- 17. research presenting a child with a visual situation that 'in the real world' could not physically happen
- 19. research the ability to conserve
- 20. giving support with the elements of a task that is initially beyond the learner's capacity, thus helping the child move into the zopd
- 21. research object performance in infants
Down
- 1. (Piagetian) new info or experiences cannot be fitted into the child's current understanding so either an existing schema is changed or a new schema is created
- 3. a type of neuron which activates when we observe others and which fires in the same way when we recreate the action of 'another' ourselves
- 4. this is the ability to consider multiple aspects of a situation
- 5. a 'false belief' which is used to find out whether young children have developed theory of mind
- 6. mental structures that are being added to and changed throughout life
- 8. (Piagetian) new info or experiences can be fitted into the child's existing schema or current understanding of the world
- 11. (Piagetian) understanding that the quantity of an object does not change when appearance changes
- 13. when a child has not developed object permanence they assume that an object no longer exists if it cannot be seen
- 15. the distance between independent ability level and potential ability level when problem solving in collaboration with more capable adults or peers
- 18. a mental disorder which becomes apparent in early childhood