Developmental Psychology

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Across
  1. 4. Moral development theorist.
  2. 6. Concept that things continue to exist even when they are out of sight.
  3. 7. Using old thinking strategies to deal with new situations.
  4. 9. Stage in Piaget's theory when children are capable of abstract thought.
  5. 11. Fear of adults other than caregivers, peaks at 8-9months.
  6. 12. Parents are nurturing but do not provide much guidance.
  7. 14. Development from the center outward.
  8. 15. Concept or framework that helps us organize and interpret information
  9. 17. Coined the 8 stages of psychosocial development.
  10. 19. Type of intelligence that enables a person to reason quickly- declines with age.
  11. 20. Parents guide the child with dialogue, children become well self-regulated.
  12. 21. Name given to the developing baby from three months to birth.
  13. 23. Type of intelligence that grows over the years; an accumulation of knowledge and skills.
  14. 24. Level of Kohlberg's theory where self interest drives justifications for behavior.
  15. 25. Theorist who developed ideas about attachment in the strange situation.
  16. 26. Russian psychologist who studied how a child's mind develops through social interaction and internalized language.
  17. 28. Abnormal brain deterioration in late adulthood.
  18. 30. Being unable to see things from another person's point of view.
  19. 31. Reflex causing the newborn infant to turn its head toward something touching its cheek.
  20. 33. Children are expected to obey strict rules or risk punishment in this parenting style.
  21. 34. Environmental risks that may cause birth defects.
  22. 35. Female moral development theorist; countered Kohlberg's theory.
Down
  1. 1. Developing baby from conception to 2 weeks.
  2. 2. Level of Kohlberg's theory where conforming to rules dominates moral reasoning.
  3. 3. Rules and laws may be broken based on personal ethical principles in this level of Kohlberg's theory.
  4. 5. Reflex causing the newborn to close their fist around something put in their hand.
  5. 8. Emotional bond that forms during the first year that makes babies cling to their caregivers for safety/comfort.
  6. 10. Sense of independence.
  7. 13. The automatic biological unfolding of development in an organism.
  8. 16. First menstrual period.
  9. 18. Organ the fetus is attached to in the womb during development.
  10. 22. Stage of cognitive development where object permanence is developed.
  11. 27. What we call the baby from 2 weeks to 3 months.
  12. 29. Changing old ways of thinking to adjust to new situations according to Piaget.
  13. 32. This part of the brain lags behind in development during the teenage years.