Across
- 2. early in life when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences is needed for proper development
- 4. difficulty taking another's point of view
- 6. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
- 8. awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived
- 12. adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information
- 15. 2 to 6/7 years of age in which a child learns to use language but cannot yet perform the mental operations of concrete logic
- 16. of mind people's ideas about their own and others' mental states - about their feelings, perceptions, and thoughts, and the behaviors these might predict
- 17. birth to nearly 2 years of age during which infants know the world mostly in terms of their sensory impressions and motor activities
- 18. fear of strangers that infants commonly display, beginning by about 8 months of age
Down
- 1. a person's characteristic emotional reactivity and intensity
- 2. properties such as mass, volume, and a number remain the same despite changes in shape
- 3. appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors
- 5. emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver, and showing distress on separation
- 7. concept or framework that organizes and interprets information
- 9. 6/7 to 11 years of age during which children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events
- 10. sense that the world is predictable and trustworthy; said to be formed during infancy by appropriate experiences and responsive caregivers
- 11. beginning about age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts
- 13. biological growth processes leading to orderly changes in behavior, mostly independent of experience
- 14. interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas