Across
- 4. one's intellectual attainments as shown by vocabulary and accumulated knowledge.
- 9. the young adult's process of becoming their own person by means of integrating his or her own values and beliefs with those of others.
- 12. hormones that cause muscles in the uterine wall to contract.
- 13. a condition involving progressive loss of bone tissue.
- 16. the first stage of ethnic identity development; similar to the diffusion or foreclosure identity statuses.
- 17. the onset of menstruation.
- 18. mental flexibility the ability to process information rapidly.
Down
- 1. the absence of mentruation.
- 2. according to Kohlberg a period during which moral judgmwents are derived from moral principles and people look to themselves to set moral standards.
- 3. thinking that divides the cognitive world into opposites.
- 5. the process by which the body converts food energyt to heat at a lower rate when a person eats less, because of, famine or dieting.
- 6. the fourth stage in Piaget's cognitive developmental theory characterized by the capacity for flexible, reversible operations concerning abstract ideas and concepts.
- 7. an eating disorder characterized by cycles of binge eating and purging as a means of controlling weight gain.
- 8. the practice of people getting married to people who are similar to them.
- 10. the experience of warmth toward another person that arises from feelings of closeness and connectedness.
- 11. unblanced growth, such as the growth that occurs during the early part of adolescence and causes many adolescents to appear gawky.
- 14. a theoretical period of development spanning the ages of 18 to 25 in which young people in developed nations engage in extended role exploration.
- 15. thought processes directed at considering how we arrive at our beliefs, facts, and ideas.
