Cognitive Development In Childhood Crossword
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1) Period within Piagetian theory from age 2 to 7 years, in which children can represent objects through drawing and language but cannot solve logical reasoning problems, such as conservation problems.
2) The Piagetian stage starts at age 12 and continues for the rest of life, during which adolescents may gain the reasoning powers of educated adults.4) The environments, starting with the womb, that influence all aspects of children’s development.6) Problems pioneered by Piaget in which physical transformation of an object or set of objects changes a perceptually salient dimension but not the quantity that is being asked about.
7) Gradual, incremental change, as in the growth of a pine tree’s girth.15) The genes that children bring with them to life and that influence all aspects of their development. |
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3) The ability to actively perceive the distance from oneself of objects in the environment.5) Large, fundamental change, as when a caterpillar changes into a butterfly; stage theories such as Piaget’s posit that each stage reflects qualitative change relative to previous stages.
8) The view is that development changes can be divided clearly into unique stages.9) The theory is that development occurs through a sequence of discontinuous stages: the sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages.
10) Ways in which development occurs in a gradual incremental manner, rather than through sudden jumps.11) Theory founded in large part by Lev Vygotsky emphasizes how other people and the attitudes, values, and beliefs of the surrounding culture influence children’s development.
12) Awareness of the component sounds within words.13) Piagetian stage, between ages 7 and 12, is when children can think logically about concrete situations but not engage in systematic scientific reasoning.
14) The sizes of numbers.16) Theories that focus on describing the cognitive processes that underlie thinking at any one age and cognitive growth over time.17) Period within Piagetian theory from birth to age 2 years, during which children come to represent the enduring reality of objects.18) The Piagetian task is in which infants below about 9 months of age fail to search for an object that is removed from their sight and, if not allowed to search immediately for the object, act as if they do not know that it continues to exist.
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