Across
- 5. all the mental activities associated w/ thinking, knowing & remembering
- 10. interpreting one’s new experience in terms of one’s existing schemas
- 13. adapting one’s current schemas to incorporate new info; having a new schema
- 15. baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek to open the mouth & search for the nipple
- 18. studies psychical, mental (cognitive), & social changes occurring throughout the lifespan
- 19. thinking about hypothetical scenarios & processing abstract thoughts
Down
- 1. believed that children build concepts or schemas which are mental categories
- 2. when you rub on bottom of baby’s foot and the toes fan out & curl back inwards
- 3. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior & relatively uninfluenced by experience
- 4. outer part of zygote; where nourishment passes
- 6. known for the stages of psychosocial development
- 7. theory that babies attach to their mothers b/c they are usually the ones that provide nourishment
- 8. idea of infantile amnesia
- 9. fertilized egg
- 11. representing things w/ words/images
- 12. causes psychical & cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman heavily drinking
- 14. inner part of zygote
- 16. harmful substances that can reach the embryo/fetus during prenatal development and cause harm Ex: chemicals
- 17. mental structures that an individual uses to organize knowledge and guide cognitive processes and behavior