Across
- 4. The emotional tie with another person shown by seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation
- 6. Concepts or mental frameworks that organize and interpret information
- 7. prominence The awareness that things continue to exist even when you cannot hear or see them
- 9. Biological growth processes that enable orderly changes in behavior
- 11. operational stage Piaget’s theory: the stage of cognitive development (beginning around age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts and form strategies about things may not have experienced
- 12. The principle that properties such as mass, volume, and number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects
- 14. A fertilized egg
- 15. Psychology A subfield of psychology that studies physical, cognitive, and social change throughout the life span
- 18. parenting Style of parenting marked by submitting to children’s desires, making few demands, and using little punishment
- 21. The biochemical units of life
- 23. operational stage Piaget’s theory: The stage of cognitive development (from around 6 or 7 to 11 years of age) during which children gain the mental skills that let them think logically about concrete events
- 24. reflex A baby’s tendency when touched on the cheek, to open their mouth and search for something to suck (this reflex disappears by the baby’s first birthday)
- 25. A person’s characteristic emotional excitability
Down
- 1. period The optimal period shortly after birth when an organism’s exposure to certain experiences produces proper development
- 2. parenting Style of parenting marked by imposing rules and expecting obedience
- 3. parenting Style of parenting marked by making demands on the child, being responsive, setting and enforcing rules, and discussing the reasons behind the rules
- 5. Substances that cross the placental barrier and prevent the fetus from developing normally
- 8. Piaget (1896-1980) Pioneer in the study of development psychology who introduced a stage theory of cognitive development that led to a better understanding of children’s thought processes.
- 10. All mental processes associated with thinking, knowing, and remembering
- 11. Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) Physical and cognitive abnormalities that appear in children whose mothers consumed large amounts of alcohol while pregnant
- 13. A developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth
- 16. stage Piaget’s theory: the stage (from about 2 to 6 to 7 years of age) during which a child learns to use language but cannot yet think logically
- 17. The process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period early in life
- 19. A developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the end of the 8th week
- 20. Stage Piaget’s theory: the stage (from birth to about 2 years of age)during which infants learn about the world through their sensory impressions and motor activities
- 22. Piaget’s theory: the inability of the preoperational child to take another person’s point of view or to understand that symbols can represent other objects