Unit 6 - Developmental Psychology

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Across
  1. 3. childhood disorder marked by deficiencies in communication and social interaction.
  2. 6. in Piaget's theory, changing an existing schema to incorporate new information.
  3. 8. the developing person from 9 weeks after conception until birth.
  4. 10. principle that properties such as number and volume remain constant despite changes in appearance.
  5. 13. type of intelligence that reflects accumulated learning.
  6. 14. a study in which the same people are retested over a period of years.
  7. 15. type of intelligence that relates to reasoning speedily and abstractly.
  8. 16. fertilized human egg.
Down
  1. 1. decreasing responsiveness to a stimulus that is repeatedly presented.
  2. 2. in Piaget's theory, interpreting a new experience in terms of an existing schema.
  3. 4. any drug, virus, or other toxic substance that crosses the mother's placenta.
  4. 5. a study in which people of different ages are compared with one another.
  5. 7. the first menstrual period.
  6. 9. mental concepts or frameworks that organize information.
  7. 11. the developing person from 2 weeks through 2 months after conception.
  8. 12. process by which certain animals form attachments during a critical period.