Across
- 7. the child's experience, expression, and management of emotions and the ability to establish positive and rewarding relationships with others
- 9. the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses
- 10. process that starts in human infancy and continues into late adolescent concentrating on gross and fine motor skills as well as puberty
- 12. movement and coordination of the arms, legs, and other large body parts and movements
- 13. process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being
- 15. type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences
- 16. the 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
Down
- 1. stresses that behavior is strongly influenced by biology, is tied to evolution, and is characterized by critical or sensitive periods
- 2. used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influences
- 3. refers to learning procedure in which a biologically potent stimulus
- 4. field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development and cognitive psychology compared to an adult's point of view
- 5. actions performed by an organism that can be seen and measured
- 6. the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another
- 8. smaller movements that occur in the wrists, hands, fingers, and the feet and toes
- 11. divided the environment into five different levels
- 14. the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates