The Brain
The coordination center of the brain.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Functions that require certain basic features to develop normally.
What is experience expectant brain function?
As excessive weight builds due to _____ students' confidence and self esteem lower.
What is childhood obesity?
Time between the onrush of hormones and full adult development.
What is puberty?
This theorist coined the concept of assimilation and accommodation.
Who is Piaget?
The part of the brain that promotes motor control, speech production, problem solving, and self control.
What is the frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex?
From ages 2-6, this part of the brain develops further causing longer attention spans and more impulse control.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
"Intelligence quotient" numerical measure of intelligence.
What is IQ?
A person's own idea of how their body looks.
What is body image?
This theorist coined the terms Zone of Proximal Development and Scaffolding.
Who is Vygotsky?
What is the parietal lobe?
Physical abilities involving small body movements, especially of the hands and fingers.
What are fine motor skills?
Multiple ways of demonstrating knowledge and learning new information coined by Gardner.
What are the Multiple Intelligences?
Idea that the world is looking in on and revolves around oneself, most prevalent in adolescence.
What is adolescent egocentrism?
People travel through 8 stages of development followed by a "crisis" that leads them to the next phase.
Who is Erikson?
A large collection of neurons that connects both hemispheres of the brain.
What is the Corpus Callosum?
In order to __________ adults should make sure that children have a safe space to play, appropriate equipment, and playmates.
What are Gross motor skills?
Students with this special need have difficulty focusing and sitting still for extended periods of time that impacts them in daily life.
What is ADHD?
In puberty a delay in the ______ may occur, causing many adolescents to be extra tired in the morning and more energetic at night.
What is circadian rhythm?
Levels of moral development responding to the Heinz scenario.
Who is Kohlberg?
Explain how a message travels through neurons to parts of the body or the brain.
The primary reason for faster thinking is new and extensive __________.
What is mylenation?
Legal requirement that children with special needs be assigned to the most general educational context possible.
What is LRE? (Least Restrictive Environment)
What is analytical or logical?
Intelligence comes in many different forms and teachers should cater to the different learning styles in their classroom.
Who is Gardner?