Across
- 3. Unable to understand other people think and feel differently to you
- 5. Stages of development do not change and children pass through each stage in the same order
- 8. The ability to rank things in order
- 10. The final stage of development
- 12. When new information is absorbed into an existing schema
- 14. Unable to understand things can be restored back to their original state
- 17. The transitional period between childhood and adulthood
- 18. The ability to imagine and think about things you haven't directly experienced
- 19. The ability to focus on more than one aspect of a situation - crucial for learning how to read
- 22. When cells move to their correct location in the brain
- 25. The gap between neurons
- 26. Found all around the brain and reaches maximum density in adolescence
- 28. Stages of development are the same for all children
- 31. The final stage of Piaget's theory of development
- 32. Babies cannot understand that just because you cannot see something it doesn't mean it no longer exists
Down
- 1. The ability to think about things that aren't physically present
- 2. The period of time spent in the womb before an individual is born
- 4. Embryo develops this 16 days after fertilisation
- 6. The stage of development from 2-7 years old
- 7. The stage of development from 7-11 years old
- 9. When a new schema is created or an existing one is altered to fit new informtion
- 11. Adults are more likely to be this as their prefrontal cortex has fully matured
- 13. The time between birth and the start of puberty
- 15. Mental pictures that help us make sense of the worlf
- 16. Chemical messengers
- 20. When we get rid of the neural connections we do not use
- 21. The ability to understand that volume, mass or length does not change with a change in shape
- 23. the part of the brain responsible for how we think and act formed in the prenatal stage
- 24. Giving human qualities to inanimate objects
- 27. By the age of 3 the density of synapses in this part of the brain is at is peak
- 29. Babies learn through their senses and movement
- 30. The area of the brain first to mature in adolescence
