Cognitive Development

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Across
  1. 2. A more persistent generalised mental state that is not necessarily exclusively triggered by external sensory stimulus but can also result from internal circumstances.
  2. 8. The higher order cognitive processes that children use to organise and order their thoughts.
  3. 10. Refers to the process of growth in intellectual/mental abilities around thinking, reasoning and understanding
  4. 11. Theory of cognitive development postulates that information from the external world is internalised through language
Down
  1. 1. Theory refers to the amount of mental effort that can be used in working memory
  2. 3. One component of the theory is the adaption process that allows the transition from one stage to another
  3. 4. The set of symbols and the rules for combining those symbols that we use to communicate with others.
  4. 5. Thinking about thinking
  5. 6. Guiding oneself to what is important.
  6. 7. The mental process by which sensory information (what a child sees, hears, feels, smells or tastes) is interpreted, identified and organised as information that is stored and understood.
  7. 9. The process of encoding, storing and retrieving experience and information