Piaget 1

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Across
  1. 2. I am the Greek-derived word meaning "origins" or "beginnings" that gave his specific field of study its "genetic" name.
  2. 5. I am the academic degree earned in 1918 from the University of Neuchâtel for a doctoral thesis on the mollusks of the Alps.
  3. 7. I am the professor father who modeled a passionate dedication to systematic work and historical research for his son.
  4. 10. I am the scholarly godfather who suggested a teenager study philosophy and logic during his early crisis of faith.
  5. 11. I am the specific species of pond snail that taught a young scientist about the active biological adaptation of organisms to their environment.
  6. 13. I am the professional post a sixteen-year-old student was offered in Geneva in 1912 but had to decline because he had not yet finished high school.
  7. 14. I am the specific type of answers that fascinated a researcher because children of the same age consistently made the same errors.
Down
  1. 1. I am the group of shellfish that a teenage prodigy spent hours classifying at a local museum, eventually becoming a world-renowned expert.
  2. 3. I am the quiet Swiss university town where a boy was born in 1896 to a professor of medieval literature.
  3. 4. I am the pale-colored bird a ten-year-old boy spotted in a park and described in his very first published scientific paper.
  4. 6. I am the city where a young doctor spent a semester in 1918 studying psychoanalysis under famous figures like Carl Jung and Paul Eugen Bleuler.
  5. 8. I am the energetic but "neurotic" mother whose mental health struggles sparked her son's lifelong curiosity about the human mind.
  6. 9. I am the school laboratory in Paris where, in 1920, a researcher realized that children’s "incorrect" answers were actually windows into their logic.
  7. 12. I am the branch of philosophy studying the nature of knowledge that Piaget famously "biologized" to explain how humans understand reality.
  8. 15. I am the director of the Natural History Museum of Neuchâtel who mentored a young apprentice in the art of shell classification.