Across
- 3. A cognitive framework or concept that helps organize and interpret information.
- 8. The understand, acquired in infancy, that objects exist independently of oneself.
- 10. Refers to young children’s difficulty in seeing the world from another’s viewpoint.
- 11. A Swiss psychologist who is best known for his theory on cognitive development.
- 13. Spans from birth to 2 years, a period during which the infant progresses from simple reflex actions to symbolic processing.
- 14. Stage that spans ages 2 to 7, is marked by the child’s use of symbols to represent objects and events.
Down
- 1. Stage that spans from age 11 into adulthood, children and adolescents apply mental operations to abstract entities; they think hypothetically and reason deductively.
- 2. _____ reasoning is the ability to draw appropriate conclusions from facts.
- 4. A concept in which a child understand that changing the form of a substance or object does not change the overall amount, volume, or mass.
- 5. _____ thinking refers to the use of symbols (e.g., words and images) and mental representations of objects or events to represent the world.
- 6. Stage that spans from 7 to 11, children first use mental operations to solve problems and to reason.
- 7. When children credit inanimate objects with life and lifelike properties.
- 9. _______ thinking characterized by the ability to use concepts and to make and understand generalizations, such as of the properties or pattern shared by a variety of specific items or events.
- 12. Narrowly focused thinking on only one characteristic of an object or experience during the preoperational stage.