Infant and Child Development Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. the speech of children roughly between the ages of 18 and 30 months. This is usually in the form of two-word expressions up to the age of about 24 months (see two-word stage) and thereafter is characterized by short but multiword expressions (e.g., dog eat bone).
  2. 4. all forms of knowing and awareness, such as perceiving, conceiving, remembering, reasoning, judging, imagining, and problem solving.
  3. 6. the process of absorbing, incorporating, or making similar. In making judgments, for example, it refers to finding similarities between the target being judged and features of the context in which it is judged.
  4. 8. the biological processes involved in an organism’s becoming functional or fully developed
  5. 10. a primitive, prehensile, involuntary response to a mechanical stimulus present in a newborn
  6. 13. the time during which a given behavior is especially susceptible to, and indeed requires, specific environmental influences to develop normally.
  7. 14. a simple yet profound and highly effective learning process that occurs during a critical period in the life of some animals.
Down
  1. 1. prior to birth: pertaining to that which exists or occurs between conception and birth
  2. 3. The rooting reflex happens when something touches your baby's face to make them turn their head toward the touch
  3. 5. in which there is no attempt to exchange thoughts or take into account another person’s point of view.
  4. 6. the emotional bond between a human infant or a young nonhuman animal and its parent figure or caregiver
  5. 7. the process by which the focus of the eye is changed to allow near or distant objects to form sharp images on the retina.
  6. 9. the awareness that physical quantities do not change in amount when they are altered in appearance, such as when water is poured from a wide, short beaker into a thin, tall one.
  7. 11. the ability to mentally represent objects, events, and experiences that are not currently being perceived
  8. 12. permanence knowledge of the continued existence of objects even when they are not directly perceived