Across
- 5. theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns
- 8. actions performed by an organism that can be seen and measured
- 11. type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences
- 12. small movements — such as picking up small objects and holding a spoon — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue
- 14. construction of thought processes, including remembering, problem solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood.
- 15. view that people learn by watching others. In psychology, it explains personality in terms of how a person thinks about and responds to one's social environment
Down
- 1. process that starts in human infancy and continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross and fine motor skills as well as puberty
- 2. involved in movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts and movements
- 3. includes the child's experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others
- 4. systems theory is an approach to study of human development that consists of the 'scientific study of the progressive, mutual accommodation, throughout the life course, between an active, growing human being, and the changing properties of the immediate settings in which the developing person lives
- 6. process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being
- 7. surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
- 9. mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses
- 10. learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.
- 13. stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods." In other words, there are times when we are most sensitive to particular types of stimuli
- 16. passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another