Across
- 2. decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
- 3. the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view.
- 5. the stage from 2 years to 6/7 years during which a human learns to use language but does not yet comprehend the mental operations of concrete logic.
- 8. beginning at age 12 during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts.
- 9. biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior, relatively uninfluenced by experience.
- 10. a framework that offers children temporary support as they develop higher levels of thinking.
- 11. the fertilized egg.
- 15. the awareness that things continue to exist even when not perceived.
- 16. "monster makers" chemicals and viruses that can reach the embryo or fetus.
- 17. interpreting our new experiences n terms of our existing schema
- 18. people's ideas about their own and others' mental stages about their mind.
Down
- 1. 7 years to 11 years during which a human gain the mental operation that enable them to think logically about concrete events.
- 4. adapting our current understandings to incorporate new information.
- 6. a branch of psychology that studies physical,cognitive, and social changes throughout the lifespan.
- 7. the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
- 12. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
- 13. a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
- 14. the stage from birth to 2 years during which humans know the world mostly in terms of sensory and motor functions